From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.

Lot # 518 - Price Realized: US$2800 

Valens. (364-378 AD). Silver light miliarense (4.41 gm). 
Constantinople, 364-367 AD. D N VALENS—P F AVG, bust cuirassed 
right, seen from front, wearing pearl diadem, fold of cloak on left 
shoulder / GLORIA ROMANORVM, Valentinian I and Valens, both in 
military dress, standing respectively left, head right, and right, 
head left, each holding globe and scepter, beneath a decorated arch 
supported by two columns with spiral fluting, CONSB in exergue. Cf. 
Gemini III, 9 January 2007, lot 483 (officina Ã). Not in the 
standard catalogues. Cf. RIC Constantinople 9 (Valentinian I, R4) 
and Cohen, Valens 10 (Antioch, 80 Fr.). Very rare denomination, 
unpublished variant. Very fine. 




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