Triton XVIII, Lot: 1300. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Phocas. 602-610. AV Solidus (16mm, 4.48 g, 6h). Carthage mint. Dated IY 10 (606/7). D N FOCAS PЄRP AN I, crowned and cuirassed bust facing, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger in right hand / VICTORI–A AVGG I, angel standing facing, holding staff terminating in staurogram in right hand, globus cruciger in left; CONOB. DOC –; MIBE 33; SB 681A. EF. Well struck. Extremely rare.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection. Ex an “Important Collection of Byzantine Coins” (Sincona 3, 25 October 2011), lot 3196; Numismatica Ars Classica 33 (6 April 2006), lot 647; Auctiones 15 (18 September 1985), lot 850.