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LOT 3482
Byzantine Coins - AE Follis Group. 5th-11th century AD.
Comprising: various emperors, issues and reverse types. Fine - Good Fine.(76.72gr total, 21-34mm). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, collector.
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John I Zimisces AR Miliaresion. AD 969-976.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Constantinople mint. + IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ҺICA ✶, crosslet set on globus above two steps; in central medallion, crowned bust facing, Iധ AҺ flanking / + IധAҺҺ, ЄҺ X'ധ AVTOCRAT, ЄVSЄЬ' ЬASILЄVS RധMAIധ' in five lines; ornaments above and below. DOC 7a; SB 1792. 1.58gr, 20mm, 6h
Very Fine. Flan crack at 11h.
From a 1980s UK collection; Property of a London antiquarian. -
Constantine V Copronymus, with Leo IV and Leo III, AV Solidus. AD 741-775.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Constantinople mint; struck AD 764-773. C LЄON P A MЧL, crowned facing bust of Leo III wearing loros, holding cross potent in right hand / COҺSƮAҺƮIҺOS S LЄOҺ O ҺЄOS, crowned facing busts of Constantine V and Leo IV, each wearing chlamys; cross above. DOC 2a.1; SB 1551. 4.34gr, 19mm, 6h
Extremely Fine.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Empire of Trebizond, Alexius II Comnenus AR Asper. AD 1297-1330.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
St. Eugenius on horseback to right, holding cruciform sceptre; O A(ligate) ЄV-Γ-NI across fields, lis below / Emperor on horseback to right, holding lis-tipped sceptre; A-ΛЄ to right, Ͷ before, lis below, sun in upper right field. Bendall 52; SB 2619. 1.92gr, 21mm, 7h
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
