LOT 3266
Byzantine AE Anonymous Follis. Time of Basil II and Constantine VIII, AD 976-1028.
Constantinople mint. Class A2. [✠ Є]MMA-[NOVHΛ], nimbate bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing tunic and himation, raising right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in His left; two dots in each limb of the nimbate cross; IC XC in fields / ✠ IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ЬASILЄЧ ЬASILЄ, legend in four lines across field; ornament above and below. DOC A2.40 or 51; SB 1818 (Class A3). Very Fine.(9.22gr, 30mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Justinian I AR Siliqua. AD 527-565.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Carthage mint. Struck AD 533/4-537. D N IVSTINIANVS P P AC, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / VOT MV•LT HTI in three lines; all within wreath; CONOS below. DOC 280; MIBE 51; SB 253. 1.14gr, 15mm, 5h.
Good Very Fine. Toned with blue iridescence around the devices.
Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
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Group of Seventeen [17] Byzantine AE Coins. 6th-10th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Various emperors. 109gr total.
Fine to Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Heraclius, with Martina and Heraclius Constantine AE 40 Nummi or Follis. AD 610-641.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Cyzicus mint, 1st officina. Dated RY 18 (AD 627/8). Heraclius, in centre, flanked by Martina, on left, and Heraclius Constantine, on right, each wearing crown and chlamys and holding globus cruciger / Large M; cross above, monogram to left, ANNO X ЧI II above and to right; A and KYZ below. DOC 177; MIB 186; SB 841. 5.24gr, 24mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
