Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1218. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Coin Weight. temp. Justin II, 565-578. Æ Three Ounce Weight (88.53 g). Crowned facing busts of emperor, on right, and empress, on left, above horizontal bar; Γ• Γ below; all within ornamented and filleted wreath; to upper left, annulet within circle; to upper right, Greek cross within circle / Blank. Bendall -; Rochesnard -. Good VF, some adjustment scratches on reverse. Well engraved.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.

An attribution to Justin II cannot be certain but is probable as Sophia was featured so prominently on the emperor’s coinage.