LOT 3929
Maurice Tiberius AE 40 Nummi or Follis. Dated RY 2 (AD 583/4). Theoupolis (Antioch) mint.
∂ ᙏ ΠTI CO-TNITAΛT P P, facing bust, wearing crown with trefoil ornament, consular robes, holding mappa and eagle-tipped sceptre / Large ᙏ; cross above, ANNO to left, II (date) to right, ƮHЄUP' in exergue. DOC 153; SB 532. Good Very Fine.(12.46gr, 31mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Anonymous AE Follis. Circa 11th century AD. Uncertain mint.
Estimate: £70 - 90 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £35
IC XC to left and right of bust of Christ, nimbate, facing, His right hand raised, book of gospels in His left / Jewelled cross with globe at each end, set on two steps; wedge in each angle. For another example cf. Numismatik Naumann 119, 822; otherwise unpublished. 7.13gr, 28mm, 5h.
Very Fine. Apparently overstruck on an earlier anonymous follis. Unpublished class.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Maurice Tiberius AE 40 Nummi or Follis. Dated RY 2 (AD 583/4). Theoupolis (Antioch) mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
∂ ᙏ ΠTI CO-TNITAΛT P P, facing bust, wearing crown with trefoil ornament, consular robes, holding mappa and eagle-tipped sceptre / Large ᙏ; cross above, ANNO to left, II (date) to right, ƮHЄUP' in exergue. DOC 153; SB 532. 12.46gr, 31mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Byzantine AE Anonymous Follis. Time of Constantine IX, circa AD 1042-1055. Constantinopolis mint. Class D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
IC to left, XC to right of Christ, nimbate, seated facing on throne with back / IS XS bASILЄ bASIL in three lines, cross between two lines above, crescent between two lines below. DOC Class D; SB 1836. 5.34gr, 25mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
