Valens AV Solidus. Constantinople, AD 368. D N VALENS P F AVG, consular bust to left, wearing pearl-diadem and imperial mantle, holding mappa in right hand and sceptre in left / VOTA PVBLICA, Valens and Valentinian seated facing, both nimbate, holding a mappa in raised right hand, and sceptre in left; bound captive to left and right, *CONS(wreath) in exergue. RIC IX 29(b); Depeyrot 22/2. 4.48g, 22mm, 6h.

Good Extremely Fine; lustrous. Very Rare.

From a private UK collection.