271, Lot: 118. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justinian II. Second reign, 705-711. AV Semissis (18mm, 2.14 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. ∂N IҺS CҺS RЄX RЄGNANTIЧM, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; cross behind / ∂[N IЧS] TINIA NЧS MЧLTЧS A’, crowned facing bust of Justinian, wearing beard and loros, and holding globus cruciger inscribed PAX and cross potent set upon globus. DOC 3; MIB 3; SB 1416. Good VF, minor flan waviness. Rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 363; William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s New York 6055, 5 December 1990), lot 503.