CONCORDIA AVGG (408 / 420)


Reference : AYC #14, RIC 358
Weight: 4.43 grs
Metal: Gold
Diameter: 21.00 mm
Scarcity: Scarce
Type:

Obverse

Reverse

D N THEODO - SIVS P F AVG

Bust of Theodosius II facing, cuirassed, wearing a helmet with crest and a pearl diadem. Holding a spear passing behind his head with the right hand and a decorated shield with a horseman slaying an enemy, with the left hand.

CONCORDI - A AVGG

Constantinopolis seated on a throne with her head to the right, holding a scepter with her right hand and a globe surmounted by a victory with her left hand. Her right foot placed on a prow. 

Marks

TESOB
Numéro :

Photo of a coin sold the 19/05/2021 by Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 117, lot 630, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8127805, link to their website: https://www.cngcoins.com/.

One coin with the lettering of the coin is poorly made and modified. On the reverse the letter V is in two parts and the letter B of TESOB comes from a modification. Here is the coin:

Photo of a coin sold the 12/05/2010 by Auktionhaus H.D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 86, lot 1291, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=787321, link to their website: https://www.hdrauch.com/site/de/. Note another copy whose engraver on the obverse is probably the same, the lettering on the obverse as on the reverse displays a letter A in the shape of an H. Coin sold the 19/04/2016 by Auktionshaus H.D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 101, lot 1766, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3035329. A third copy with an even worse done and retouched lettering has been sold the 14/10/2009 by Helios Numismatik GmbH, Auction 4, lot 726, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=682028.

Series with TESOB mark. Variant with decorated shield with a horseman slaying an enemy, with the left hand.

These coins from this mint all seem to have a spear depicted without a tip.