271, Lot: 111. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justinian II. First reign, 685-695. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.19 g, 6h). Light weight issue of 23 siliquae. Constantinople mint, 8th officina. Struck 685-687. IЧSTINIA NЧS PЄ AV[C], crowned facing bust, wearing slight beard and chlamys, and holding globus cruciger / VICTORIA [A]VςЧ, cross potent set upon three steps; star to right; H//CONOB. DOC 2b var. (officina); MIB 10 (same dies as illustration); SB 1250. EF, lustrous, some minor striking weakness. Very rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 320; William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s New York 6055, 5 December 1990), lot 448.