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LOT 3089
Justinian I AE 20 Nummi or Half Follis. Dated RY 21 (AD 547/8). Nicomedia mint.
D N IVSTINI-ANVS P P AVC, helmeted, diademed and cuirassed bust of Justinian I facing, holding globus cruciger in his right hand and with shield, decorated with horseman spearing fallen foe, over his left shoulder; to right, cross / Large K between A N N O and XX I (date); above, cross; below, NI. DOC 148; MIBE 116a1; SB 203. Very Fine.(10.65gr, 30mm, 12h.).
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. -
Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine AE 40 Nummi or Follis. AD 610-641. Constantinople mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Crowned facing figures of Heraclius, wearing military attire, holding long cross and resting hand on hip, [and Heraclius Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger; cross above?] / Large M, cross above; A N N O [...] (date) across field; officina letter below, CO[N] in exergue. Cf. SB 810. 11.16gr, 35mm, 8h.
Near Very Fine. Overstruck on a Follis of Justinian I (traces of [...]ANV[...] on reverse).
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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.
