Details
LOT 3440
Constantius II, as Caesar AE 18mm. AD 324-337.
Antioch mint, 6th officina. Struck AD 324-325. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to left / CONSTAN-TIVS CAESAR in three lines; star above; SMANTS • below. RIC VII 60; LRBC 1327. Good Very Fine.(2.59gr, 18mm, 5h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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