From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.
Lot # 520 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$750 / Price 
Realized: US$1200 

Valentinian II. (375-392 AD). Gold solidus (4.43 gm). Lugdunum, 
388-392 AD. D N VALENTINI—ANVS P F AVG, bust draped, cuirassed 
right, seen from front, wearing pearl diadem / VICTOR—IA AVGG, two 
emperors, both nimbate, seated facing, holding globe between them, 
facing half-figure of Victory between the emperors’ heads, palm 
branch in field between their legs, L —D in field, CON in exergue. 
RIC 381 (R3). Depeyrot 17/1 (p. 130, 31 specimens). Bastien, Lyon, 
203 (38 specimens). Cohen 37 (20 Fr.). About extremely fine. 

Ex Albert M. Potts Collection; ex Munzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, 
61, 1982, 523; this specimen illustrated by Bastien, pl. XIX, 203g; 
found at Rorichum according to Bastien, p. 235, note 2. 

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