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271, Lot: 108. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine IV Pogonatus. 668-685. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.46 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 9th officina. Struck 681-685. D CONS A NЧS PP A (S’s and Ч retrograde), plume-helmeted and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with soldier on horseback motif / VICTORA AVςЧ, cross potent set upon three steps; Ө//CONOB. DOC 12e var. (obv. legend); MIB 10; SB 1157. Superb EF, fully lustrous, some light die rust. Exceptional early medieval portraiture.


Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 84 (13 October 1997), lot 6168.