MIBE Plate Coin
The Only Specimen Known to Hahn for This Indictional Year

277, Lot: 332. Estimate $200. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justin II. 565-578. AV Solidus (21mm, 3.91 g, 6h). Carthage mint. Dated IY 12 (577/8). Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, holding Victory on globus and shield / Constantinopolis seated facing head right, holding spear and globus cruciger; IB (date)//CONOB. DOC -; MIBE 18b (this coin cited and plated); SB 391 (for type, but date not recorded). VF, a few peck marks on obverse. Extremely rare and possibly unique.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 101 (6 March 2000), lot 1092.