271, Lot: 101. Estimate $2000. Sold for $7030. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Phocas. 602-610. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.49 g, 6h). Ravenna mint. Dated RY 4 (605/6). DN FOCAS PERP AVG +, crowned and curiassed facing bust, wearing medium beard and holding globus cruciger / VICTORI A AVCC, Angel standing facing, holding staff terminating in staurogram and globus cruciger; D (date)//CONOB. DOC 126c; MIBE 45c; Ranieri 1204; SB 698. Choice EF.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 186.