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CNG 94, Lot: 1331. Estimate $400.
Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Phocas. 602-610. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.47 g, 7h). Constantinople mint, 10th officina. Struck 607-609. Crowned, draped, and cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger / Angel standing facing, holding staff surmounted by staurogram and globus cruciger; I//CONOB. DOC 10j; MIBE 9; SB 620. EF, overstruck on a reverse brockage from the same dies.


From the Sasha Collection.

Many errors have been erroneously described as overstruck brockages when they are in fact die clashes. The perfectly aligned “reverses” of the undertype indicate that the present piece is in fact an overstruck brockage.