Lot 181
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Solidus, 4.41g., Rome, 353-354 A.D., FL IVL CONSTANTIVS PF AVG, armoured bust three-quarters right, wearing pearl-diadem and helmet, holding spear and studded shield decorated with stellate pattern, rev. GLORIA REIPVBLICAE, Roma and Constantinopolis seated, holding between them shield inscribed VOT XXX MVLT XXXX, RSMP and palm-branch in exergue (RIC 288; C.117), nearly extremely fine
Solidus, 4.41g., Rome, 353-354 A.D., FL IVL CONSTANTIVS PF AVG, armoured bust three-quarters right, wearing pearl-diadem and helmet, holding spear and studded shield decorated with stellate pattern, rev. GLORIA REIPVBLICAE, Roma and Constantinopolis seated, holding between them shield inscribed VOT XXX MVLT XXXX, RSMP and palm-branch in exergue (RIC 288; C.117), nearly extremely fine

Details
Solidus, 4.41g., Rome, 353-354 A.D., FL IVL CONSTANTIVS PF AVG, armoured bust three-quarters right, wearing pearl-diadem and helmet, holding spear and studded shield decorated with stellate pattern, rev. GLORIA REIPVBLICAE, Roma and Constantinopolis seated, holding between them shield inscribed VOT XXX MVLT XXXX, RSMP and palm-branch in exergue (RIC 288; C.117), nearly extremely fine
Provenance
M&M Basel auction 38, 6 December 1968, lot 604