Unpublished Half Follis for Tiberius III From Syracuse

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 829. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tiberius III (Apsimar). 698-705. Æ Half Follis (1.31 g, 6h). Syracuse mint. Struck circa 698-702. Crowned facing half-length bust, holding cross potent in right hand; TIBEPIOY monogram to right / Large K; monogram above, * S across field; SCL. Cf. DOC 20bis; cf. MBBS 63; cf. Spahr 277; cf. MIB 51; cf. SB 1437 (all refs. are of Syracuse mint follis of Justinian II, with Tiberius). VF, dark green patina. Overstruck on uncertain undertype.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.