LOT 3793
Byzantine AE Anonymous Follis. Time of Basil II and Constantine VIII, circa AD 976-1065. Constantinople mint.
✠ 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; in each limb of the nimbate cross two dots; IC XC in fields / ✠ IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ЬASILЄЧ ЬASILЄ, legend in four lines across field; ornament above and below. DOC A2; SB 1818 (Class A3). Good Very Fine.(9.23gr, 26mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired from Romanorum, March 2015, collector's ticket included.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 114, 23 November 2023, lot 1546.
Property of a London antiquarian.
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Justinian I AE 40 Nummi or Follis. Dated RY 18 (AD 544/5). Cyzicus mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
1st officina. D N IVSTINI-ANVS P P AVG, helmetted and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger with right hand and shield decorated with soldier on horseback motif with left, cross to right / Large M, ANNO XЧIII (date) across field, cross above, A below; KYZ in exergue. MIBE 120; DOC 170a; SB 207. 21.73gr, 37mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Flan crack at 7h.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine AE 40 Nummi of Follis. Circa AD 610-630. Persian Occupation of Syria.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Two standing figures each holding cross in their right hand, cross between their heads; OHΛ to right, ΠЄT I COH to left / Large M with cross above; NNN to left, ϚII ("year 8") to right, Γ below, ONCX in exergue. Pottier 39.1; EBBC Class IV(2) 20.40. 7.82gr, 26mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Live Auction 4, 29 November 2018, lot 1025. Property of a London antiquarian. -
Tiberius II Constantine AE 20 Nummi or Half Follis. AD 578-582. Nicomedia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
1st officina. D m TIb CONSTANT P P AVG, helmeted, draped and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger and shield / Large XX; cross above; NIKO A in exergue. MIBE 38; DOC 33a; SB 443. 7.40gr, 25mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK market. Property of a London antiquarian.
