LATE ROMAN COINAGE
Honorius, 393-423
Solidus, Ravenna 421, AV 4.46 g. D N HONORI – VS P F AVG Half-figure facing, wearing pearl-diademed helmet and holding spear and shield decorated with Christogram. Rev. Roma and Constantinopolis seated on cuirass facing, holding between them shield inscribed VOT / XXX / MVLT / XXXX; across field, R – V. In exergue, COMOB. C 73. LRC 743. Depeyrot 4/1. RIC 1331.
Rare. About extremely fine
Ex Sotheby’s Wilkinson & Hodge 21-31 January 1896, Boyne, 963; Sotheby’s Wilkinson & Hodge 13-22 July 1908, O’Hagan, 825; M&M 93, 2003, 303 and NAC 64, 2012, 1339 sales.