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275, Lot: 221. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine VI & Irene, with Leo III, Constantine V, and Leo IV. 780-797. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.35 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 792-circa 793. Crowned facing busts of Constantine IV, wearing chlamys and holding globus cruciger, and Irene, wearing loros and holding cruciform scepter; between, cross above pellet / Constantine V, Leo III, and Leo IV seated facing, each wearing crown and chlamys. DOC 2b; Füeg 4 (C.4.5/Ir.4.8); SB 1591; Berk 234 (this coin). VF, areas of flat strike.


Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s (2 November 1998), lot 419.