Rare Tremessis of the Short-Lived Philippicus

161, Lot: 299. Estimate $200. Sold for $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philippicus (Bardanes). 711-713. AV Tremessis (17mm, 1.34 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Bust facing, wearing loros and crown with cross on circlet, holding globus cruciger in right hand and eagle tipped sceptre with cross above in left hand / Cross potent on base of three steps. DOC II 6; SB 1452. Good VF, area of flat strike, a little wavy, graffiti in obverse field.