Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2088. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justinian II. First Reign, 685-695. AV Solidus (4.03 g, 6h). Syracuse mint. Crowned and draped facing bust, wearing short beard, holding globus cruciger, crown topped with cross / Cross potent on three steps; H in right field; Q//CONOB. DOC II 43; S. Bendall, “Notes on Two Byzantine Hoards,” CH 1, p. 63, 9 (this coin); SB 1283. Good VF, area of flat strike, reverse struck with rusty die.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.