LOT 3269
Byzantine AE Anonymous Follis. Time of Romanus III Argyrus, AD 1028-1034.
Constantinople mint. Class B. + ЄMMA-[NOV]HΛ around, IC-XC to right and left of bust of Christ Pantokrator facing with nimbate cross behind head, square in each limb of nimbus cross, holding book of Gospels / Large cross pommée set upon two steps; IS XS bAS-ILЄ bAS-ILЄ to left and right above and beneath cross. DOC Class B; SB 1823. Near Very Fine. Overstruck on earlier Anonymous Class A3 Follis (SB 1818).(11.62gr, 29mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Leontius AE 20 Nummi of Half Follis. AD 695-698.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Constantinople mint. Dated RY 1 (AD 695/6). Uncertain officina. Crowned facing bust, holding globus cruciger with right hand; cross to right / Large K; cross above, [ANNO] A (date) across field, uncertain letter below. Cf. DOC 8a; MIB 33; SB 1335. 3.26gr, 23mm, 8h.
Near Very Fine. Overstruck on uncertain undertype.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Justinian I AE 10 Nummi or Decanummium. AD 527-565.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Nicomedia mint. Dated year 35 (AD 561/2). Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Large I, cross above; ANNO and XXXV (date) on either side; NIK below. DOC I 158; SB 205. 2.04gr, 15mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Byzantine AE Anonymous Follis. Time of Basil II and Constantine VIII, AD 976-1028.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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). 11.54gr, 29mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
