CONCORDIA AVGG (411)

Reference : AYC #17, RIC 204

Weight: 4.38 grs

Metal: Gold

Diameter: ?

Scarcity: Very rare

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

Constantinople seated on a throne with her head to the right, holding a scepter with her right hand and a shield resting on her knee with her left hand. Her right foot placed on a prow. The inscribed shield with X _ VOT _ XX in three lines.

Marks

CONOB

Numéro :

Photo from the catalog quoted below, with kind permission of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, link to Gallica for download the catalog: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t5382634g/f239.item. Sale of the 26 to 29 November 1968, Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger, Katalog 269, lot 316. Coin illustrated plate VII.

This coin has a jewel on the tiara as for the other coins that I have seen for this series.