301, Lot: 388. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Phocas. 602-610. Æ Follis (26mm, 9.89 g, 12h). Theoupolis (Antioch) mint. Dated RY 1 (602/3). Phocas, holding globus cruciger, and Leontia, holding cruciform scepter, standing facing; cross between their heads / Large m; cross above, A/N/N/O I (date) across fields; τHЄUP’. DOC 83; MIBE 83a; SB 671. VF, red-brown patina, rough in areas.

Ex Elvira Clain-Stefanelli Collection (sold previously as the ‘Demarete Collection’).