Unpublished Variety

390, Lot: 595. Estimate $150. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Leo IV the Khazar, with Constantine VI. 775-780. Æ Follis (19mm, 1.81 g, 6h). Syracuse mint. Crowned figures of Constantine V, bearded, and Leo IV, beardless, enthroned facing, each wearing chlamys and holding akakia; cross above, Λ-Є across field / Crowned and bearded half-length facing busts of Constantine V and Leo III, each wearing loros; cross above, [K?]–Λ/Є/O across field, [CIK in exergue(?)]. DOC –; Anastasi 445 var. (legends); SB –. Good VF, green patina. Well struck. Unpublished variety of a very rare issue.