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The Placidia Collection: Coins of Eastern Rome and the Byzantine Empire

COINAGE OF THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE PULCHERIA, SISTER OF THEODOSIUS II, WIFE OF MARCIANUS

Lot 36

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Starting price 2,000 CHF
Result 7,500 CHF

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Description

Semissis ca. 450.
Obv. AEL PVLCH - ERIA AVG Draped bust with diadem to r.
Rev. Chi-Rho in wreath. .CONSB¬. below. RIC 224.
2.24 g. Extremely rare (RIC R5). Cabinet piece. Brilliant uncirculated.
Purchased from Bank Leu July 1990. At the time unpublished.
According to Prof. Weiser one specimen is known in London, one specimen in Turin (The Turin specimen being of very poor quality) one specimen in the Tolstoi Colection and one was sold in Triton I.

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Update: Two more specimen known: Tolstoi and Triton I.