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LOT 3107
Constantine IV Pogonatus AE 10 Nummi or Decanummium. Struck circa AD 668-673. Constantinople mint.
Beardless, helmeted and cuirassed bust of Constantine IV facing, holding globus cruciger in right hand / Large I between cross and K; [above, cross?]. Cf. DOC 38; cf. MIB 88; cf. SB 1182. Very Fine. Overstruck on an uncertain type.(3.72gr, 24mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK market.
Property of a London antiquarian.
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Byzantine AE Anonymous Follis. Time of Basil II and Constantine VIII, AD 976-1028. Constantinople mint. Class A2.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
✠ 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). 16.68gr, 34mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Constans, as Caesar AE 18mm. AD 333-334. Treveri mint. 1st officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
FL IVL CONSTANS NOB CAES, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / GLORIA EXERCITVS, two soldiers standing facing each other, each holding spear and resting shield on ground; two standards between them; wreath in central field, TRP in exergue. RIC VII 552 (R3). 2.27gr, 18mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Very rare.
Found Heronsgate Resevoir, Chorleywood, UK, 1970s. Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Anastasius I AE 40 Nummi or Follis. Struck AD 512-517. Constantinople mint. 5th officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
D N ANASTA-SIVS P P AV, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / Large M, cross above; stars flanking; Є below, CON in exergue. DOC 23i; MIBE 27; SB 19. 14.52gr, 35mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
