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88, Lot: 240. Estimate $75.
Sold for $111. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUSTIN II. 565-578 AD. Æ Half Follis (20mm, 4.85 gm). Rome mint. Justin and Sophia enthroned / Large XX; ROM. DOC I 206; MIB II 95 (military mint); SB 404. VF, olive green patina.

Ex Lakeview Collection.

Hahn in MIB lists the Rome mint half folles of Justin II in his category of "Moneta Militarii Imitativa", a series of bronzes of very similar style bearing the mint marks of Constantinople, Nicomedia, Cyzicus and other mints. The entire series, its place of minting and the reason for its issue, remains one of the great puzzles of Byzantine numismatics.