LOT 3265
Byzantine AE Anonymous Follis. Time of Basil II and Constantine VIII, AD 976-1028.
Constantinople mint. Class A2. ✠ ЄMMA-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 A2.14b; SB 1818 (Class A3). Very Fine.(11.54gr, 29mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Group of Six [6] Anonymous AE Folles. 10th-11th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Various types. 56gr total.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Justinian I AE 40 Nummi or Follis. AD 527-565.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Constantinople mint; struck circa AD 527-538. 4th officina. D N IVSTINI-ANVS P P AVG, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / Large M; cross above, stars flanking; Δ below, CON in exergue. DOC 30f; MIBE 83; SB 160. 17.23gr, 31mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Constantine VI and Irene AE 40 Nummi or Follis. AD 780-797.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Constantinople mint; struck AD 792-797. Crowned facing bust of Irene, wearing loros, holding globus cruciger and cruciform sceptre / Crowned facing bust of Constantine, wearing chlamys, set on horizontal bar; cross to right, pellets flanking; below, large M flanked by X - N; A below. DOC 7; SB 1598. 1.49gr, 19mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
