From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008. Lot # 525 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$15000 / Price Realized: US$18000 Leo I. (457-474 AD). Gold solidus (4.45 gm). Thessalonica, 462 or 466 AD. D N LEO PE —RPET AVG, bust left, pearl-diademed and lightly bearded, wearing consular robes, holding mappa and cruciform scepter / VICTORI—A AVGGG, Leo, nimbate, enthroned facing, dress and attributes as on obverse, throne flanked by stars, THSOB in exergue. RIC 626 (R2). DO 559 (same obverse die). A fabulous example of this consular issue. Nearly mint state. © 2005-2008 Gemini, LLC | Email: info@geminiauction.com Gemini Auctions' results, text and images are re-used by the kind permission of: Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com)