247, Lot: 412. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine VI & Irene. 780-797. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.47 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 787-793. S IRI[NI] AVΓ mI τR, Crowned facing busts of Constantine VI, wearing chlamys and holding gobus cruciger, and Irene, wearing loros and holding globus cruciger and cruciform scepter; cross above, pellet between / CONSτAnτINS C S Ч’ b’, Leo III, Constantine V, and Leo IV seated facing, each crowned and wearing chlamys. DOC 1.3 var. (rev. legend); Füeg 2.12 (C.2.2/Ir.2.12); SB 1593. Good VF, some die deterioration. Rare.