Extremely Rare Spanish Tremissis of Phocas

CNG 100, Lot: 286. Estimate $5000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Phocas. 602-610. AV Tremissis (18mm, 1.27 g, 6h). Mint in Spain (Cartagena?). D N FOCO-S P P AVC, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; diadem tipped with cross on circlet / VICTORI-A AVCV, cross potent set on three steps; CONOB. DOC 136 (same dies); MIBE 36; SB 709. VF, internal surface crack, small edge chip. Extremely rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Leu/Numismatica Ars Classica (26 May 1993), lot 567.