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176, Lot: 258. Estimate $100.
Sold for $64. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justinian I. 527-565. Æ Half Follis (30mm, 11.23 g). Nicomedia mint. Dated RY 11 (537/538). Diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger and shield; cross to right / Large K; cross above, A/N/N/O XI across fields; NI. DOC 140 var.; SB 203 var. VF, patina stripped, starting to retone brown.


This variety is unrecorded for Regnal Year XI, but the strike is flat at 3:00 on the reverse and this could be hiding a missing numeral or two