271, Lot: 100. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tiberius II Constantine. 578-582. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.41 g, 6h). Rome mint. Dated RY 5 (578/9). ∂m TIЬ CONS TANT PP AVI, cuirassed facing bust, wearing crown with pendilia and holding globus cruciger and shield decorated with soldier on horseback motif / VICTORI A AVCC, cross potent set upon four steps; Π (date)//CONOB. DOC -; MIBE NNN14 (same dies as illustration; this coin cited); SB 468 (as Ravenna); M. O’Hara, “A Sixth Century Hoard of Solidi of the Fabric of the Mint of Ravenna,” in Schweizer Münzblätter XXIX (August 1979), no. 7 (this coin). EF. Rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 134; Bonhams 3 (3 December 1980), lot 60; Michael Dennis O’Hara Collection; reportedly from the Sermide Hoard, found circa 1959.