CNG 99, Lot: 778. Estimate $400. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justinian I. 527-565. AR 250 Nummi – Half Siliqua (14mm, 1.42 g, 6h). Ravenna mint. Struck 552-565. Diademed and draped bust right, wearing cuirass seen from the back in the Ostrogothic style / Large CN; star below; all within wreath. DOC 334g; MIBE 59 (Rome); Ranieri 338; Morgan Fitts p. 53 (this coin illustrated [rev. only]); SB 314. Good VF, toned, flan crack. Nice metal for issue.

From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica P (12 May 2005), lot 2216.