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320, Lot: 630. Estimate $150.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constans II, with Constantine IV. 641-668. AV Solidus (11mm, 2.56 g, 7h). Carthage mint. Struck 659-668. Crowned and draped facing busts of Constans, wearing long beard and holding globus cruciger, and Constantine IV, beardless; cross above / Crowned and draped facing busts of Heraclius and Tiberius, both beardless and holding globus cruciger between them; long cross set on base between. DOC 126; MIB 74; SB 1044. VF.


An unusually lightweight example. This coin is possibly a fourrée, although there is no visible trace of a base metal core.