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146, Lot: 347. Estimate $75.
Sold for $445. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Non-Imperial Coinages in Africa. “Domino Nostro”.Circa 5th century. Æ Nummus (11mm, 0.75 g). DOM (IN[IS] NOSTR[IS]), diademed and draped bust right / Crude Christogram in wreath. Cf. RIC X 3815 (star). VF, brown and green patina.

The Domino Nostro coinage has been attributed to Boniface of Carthage, who held north Africa during the usurpation of Johannes (423-425), but solid evidence is lacking. RIC describes the reverse of this type as a “star”, without illustration, but the elongated central shaft clearly represents a crude Christogram. The Christogram does appear occasionally as a main coin type on gold as early as the 420’s, but only begins to replace the Latin cross on a regular basis near the end of the reign of Valentinian III (450’s). If this small bronze is copying a regular coin type, it probably post-dates the Boniface incident.