LOT 3734
Phocas AE 40 Nummi or Follis. Dated RY 2 (AD 603/4). Cyzicus mint. 1st officina.
δ m [...] PЄRP AVG, crowned facing bust, wearing consular robes, holding mappa in right hand and cross in left / Large XXXX in centre; above, ANNO; below, KYZA; in field to right, II. DOC 70; MIB 76; SB 665. Good Very Fine.(12.90gr, 32mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3734
Phocas AE 40 Nummi or Follis.
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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John III Ducas (Vatatzes), Emperor of Nicaea AV Hyperpyron. AD 1232-1254(?) Magnesia mint.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
IC XC, Christ, nimbate, seated facing on throne, wearing tunic and pallium, raising His right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in His left; sigla: in field to left and right, pellet / ΙW ΔI[...] across lower fields, MHP [ΘV] to upper fields, John III standing facing on the left, wearing divitision and loros, holding anexikakia in his left hand and labarum in his right, crowned by the Virgin Mary, nimbate, standing facing on the right. DOC 6; SB 2073. 4.16gr, 26mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. From the collection of Mr Carlos Bahamonde, Manchester, UK. -
Heraclius AE 40 Nummi or Follis. Dated RY 3 (AD 612/3). Nicomedia mint. 2nd officina.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
∂ N ҺRA[...], draped, and cuirassed bust of Heraclius facing, wearing helmet with cross and pendilia and holding globus cruciger / Large M; [cross above], A N N O II I (date) across field; B below, NIKO in exergue. Cf. DOC 155b3; MIB 174; SB 833. 13.98gr, 34mm, 6h.
Very FIne. Overstruck on an earlier follis.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Leo VI the Wise AE Follis. AD 886-912. Constantinople mint.
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
✠ LЄOh ЬAS-ILЄVS ROᙏ', crowned bust facing, wearing chlamys and holding akakia in his right hand / ✠ LЄOҺ ЄҺ ӨЄO ЬA-SILЄVS R-OᙏЄOҺ in four lines. DOC 8; SB 1729. 7.15gr, 27mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
