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LOT 3110
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 A2.22; SB 1818 (Class A3). Near Very Fine.(16.68gr, 34mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus BI Trachy. Struck AD 1195-1197. Constantinople mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
IC XC to left and right of nimbate bust of Christ facing, beardless, five dots in each limb of nimbus cross, right hand raised in benediction, holding scroll in left / [...], Alexius, crowned, and St Constantine, nimbate, each wearing divitision and loros, both standing facing, each holding labarum and the two holding globus cruciger between them. DOC 3a; SB 2012. 4.79gr, 31mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex Tom Cederlind, Portland, OR, USA. Property of a Middlesex, UK, antiquarian. -
City Commemorative BI Nummus. Struck under Constantine I, AD 334-335. Siscia mint. 3rd officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
VRBS ROMA, helmeted and mantled bust of Roma to left / She-wolf standing to left, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus; two stars above; ΓSIS in exergue. RIC 240; LRBC 750. 2.28gr, 19mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine.
Found Heronsgate Resevoir, Chorleywood, UK, 1970s. Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Justin II and Sophia AE 20 Nummi or Half Follis. Dated RY 10 (AD 574/5). Thessalonica mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
D N IVSTI-NVS P P AVG, Justin, holding globus cruciger, and Sophia, holding cruciform sceptre, seated facing on double throne, both wearing nimbus crown / Large K; cross and ΘC above, date across field; TЄS below. DOC 78; MIBE 70e; SB 366. 5.68gr, 24mm, 11h.
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
