Leo I. AD 457-474. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.45 g, 6h). Consular

Leo I. AD 457-474. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.45 g, 6h). Consular issue. Thessalonica mint. Struck circa 466 AD. D N LEO PE RPET AVG, bust left, wearing pearl-diadem and consular robes, mappa in right hand and a cruciform scepter in left hand / VICTORI A AVGGG, Leo, nimbate, seated facing, holding mappa in raised right hand and cruciform scepter in left; star in left and right fields; THSOB. RIC X 626; DOCLR 559 (same obv. die as illustration); Depeyrot 60/1; MIRB 14. Lustrous. EF. Very rare.

Ex Gemini IV (8 January 2008), lot 525 (hammer $18,000).