Illustrated in MIBE and Sear

376, Lot: 620. Estimate $100. Sold for $775. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Phocas, with Leontia. 602-610. Æ Follis (32mm, 13.08 g, 7h). Constantinople mint, 2nd officina. Dated RY 1 (602/3). Phocas, holding globus cruciger, and Leontia, holding cruciform scepter, standing facing; cross above / Large m; cross above, date across field; CONB. DOC 24b; MIBE 60a¹ (this coin illustrated on pl. 33); SB 639 (this coin illustrated). Good VF, brown surfaces.

From the M. A. Armstrong Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 2692.