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LOT 3254
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Unattributed Germanic Tribes AV Solidus. Late 5th century AD.
Possibly Gallic mint. In the name of Marcian (AD 450-457). D N MARCIA-INVS P F AVC, helmeted, pearl-diademed and cuirassed facing bust, holding spear in right hand and shield on left arm / VICTORI-A AVCCCЄ, Victory standing to left, holding in right hand long voided jewelled cross, star in right field; COИOB in exergue. Unpublished in the standard references, for other imitative issues in the name of Marcian cf. Depeyrot 89 (Imitations) = J.M. Fagerlie, Late Roman and Byzantine Solidi found in Sweden and Denmark, NNM 157 [1967], pl. XVI, 377; CNG-Triton 11, 2008, 1076 = Baldwin 47, 2006, 227; Gorny & Mosch 134, 2004, 3339. For prototype cf. RIC X 509; MIRB 5 (Constantinople). 4.23gr, 19mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
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From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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