304, Lot: 411. Estimate $100. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justin II, with Sophia. 565-578. Æ Follis (32mm, 12.81 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 2nd officina. Dated RY 12 (576/7). Nimbate figures of Justin and Sophia seated facing on double throne, holding globus cruciger and cruciform scepter, respectively / Large M; cross above, A/N/N/O X/II across field; B//CON. DOC 42b; MIBE 43a; SB 360. Near VF, black patina.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 0723.

Interesting overstrike on the obverse with what appears to be a Heraclian obverse (cf. SB 804), but there is no trace of an overstrike on the reverse.