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. 




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