Sale: Triton X, Lot: 828. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anastasius I. 491-518. AV Solidus (4.48 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 5th officina. Struck 492-507. D N ANASTA SIVS PP AVG, helmeted and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, wearing pearl-diadem with no ornament, holding spear in right hand over shoulder, shield on left arm, decorated with horseman riding right / VICTORI A AVGGG, Victory standing left, holding long cross; star in right field; E//CONOB. DOC I 5a; MIBE 4a; SB 3. EF, a tiny mark near edge at 11 o’clock, slight die shift on reverse.