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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Group of Eight [8] Byzantine AE Folles. Circa 7th-12th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Various emperors. 111gr total.
Near Fine to Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
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Group of Nine [9] AE Byzantine Coins. 10th-11th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Various rulers. 50.10gr total.
Fine to Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Constans II AE 20 Nummi or Half Follis. AD 641-668.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Carthage mint. Struck AD 647-659. D N CO-[...]ANT A, crowned and draped bust facing, holding mappa with right hand and globus cruciger with left, crown ornamented with cross / Large cross between two pellets; C-T above X-X across field; above, star. DOC 145; MIB 198c; SB 1060. 4.75gr, 18mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
