Unpublished mule?

369, Lot: 546. Estimate $75. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constans II. 641-668. Æ Half Follis – 20 Nummi (18mm, 4.30 g, 10h). Carthage mint. Struck AD 647-659. Crowned and draped bust facing, holding mappa and globus cruciger, crown ornamented with cross / Large cross; C-T above X-X across field; above, star between two pellets. DOC –; MIB –; SB 1060/1059. Good Fine, dark green patina. Unpublished mule?.

From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection.

This coin has the reverse type of SB 1059, with pellets to either side of the star on the reverse, but has the obverse type of SB 1060, with Constans’ crown ornamented with a cross instead of a trefoil.