CNG 93, Lot: 1335. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Phocas. 602-610. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.29 g, 7h). Light weight issue of 23 siliquae. Constantinople mint, 9th officina. Struck 604-607. Crowned and cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger; star to right / Angel standing facing, holding staff surmounted by staurogram and globus cruciger; star to right; [Θ]//CONOB. DOC -; MIBE 14; SB 624; Gorny & Mosch 175, lot 310 (same dies). EF, scratches in fields. Rare.

Ex UBS 64 (24 January 2006), lot 302.