From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008. Lot # 518 - Price Realized: US$2800 Valens. (364-378 AD). Silver light miliarense (4.41 gm). Constantinople, 364-367 AD. D N VALENS—P F AVG, pearl-diademed and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder. GLORIA ROMANORVM, Valentinian I and Valens, both in military dress, standing respectively left, head right, and right, head left, each holding globe and sceptre, beneath a decorated arch supported by two columns with spiral fluting, Mintmark CONSB. Cf. Gemini III, 9 January 2007, lot 483 (officina epsilon). Not in the standard catalogues. Should be a subtype of RIC Constantinople 9 (Valentinian I) and Cohen, Valens 10 (Antioch). Very rare denomination, unpublished variant. Very fine. © 2005-2008 Gemini, LLC 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)