LOT 3946
Leo VI the Wise AE Follis. AD 886-912. Constantinople mint.
✠ LЄOꞂ bAS-ILЄVS ROᙏ', facing bust of Leo VI with short beard, wearing chlamys and cross-tipped crown, holding akakia / ✠ LЄOꞂ ЄꞂ ΘЄΟ bASILЄVS ROᙏЄOꞂ in four lines. DOC 8; SB 1729. Very Fine.(7.54gr, 26mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceEx Parthenon Gallery and Coincraft, London, UK, 1990s-2000s.
Property of a North London, UK, private collector.
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Maurice Tiberius AE 40 Nummi or Follis. Dated RY 20 (AD AD 601/2). Theoupolis (Antioch) mint. 1st officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
∂ N ᙏAЧΓI CN P AЧT, crowned facing bust, wearing consular robes, holding mappa and eagle-tipped sceptre / Large M; cross above, Α below, A N N O to left, X X (date) to right, THЄЧP' in exergue. DOC 172a; SB 533. 11.39gr, 29mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Byzantine AE Anonymous Follis. Time of Alexius I, circa AD 1085-1092. Constantinople mint. Class K.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
IC XC, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; all inside border of large dots / M Θ, half-length facing figure of the Theotokos, orans; all inside border of large dots. DOC K; SB 1901. 5.96gr, 26mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Maurice Tiberius AE 40 Nummi or Follis. Dated RY 10 (AD 591/2). Theoupolis (Antioch) mint. Uncertain officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
∂ N mAVRI-CN P AUT, crowned bust facing, wearing consular robes, holding mappa and eagle-tipped sceptre / Large M; cross above, officina letter below, ANNO to left, X (date) to right, ƮHЄUP' in exergue. SB 533. 11.28gr, 30mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
