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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Maurice Tiberius AV Solidus. AD 583-601. Constantinople mint. 10th officina.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
O N MAVRC TIЬ P P AVC, draped and cuirassed bust facing, wearing plumed helmet with pendilia and holding globus cruciger / VICTORI-A AVCC I, angel standing facing, holding long staff surmounted by staurogram and globus cruciger; CONOB in exergue. DOC 5j; MIBE 6; SB 478. 4.48gr, 22mm, 6h.
Near Extremely Fine. Slightly weak strike, flan flaw to obverse.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 102, 3 November 2022, lot 1393. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. -
John III Ducas (Vatatzes), Emperor of Nicaea AV Hyperpyron. AD 1232-1254(?) Magnesia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £624
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. -
Justinian I AE 2 Nummi. Struck AD 533/4-538. Carthage mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £40
Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust to right; [crosses flanking?] / Large B. DOC 102 (Thessalonica); MIBE 190; SB 277. 1.09gr, 11mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
