Triton XVIII, Lot: 1324. Estimate $3000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philippicus (Bardanes). 711-713. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.44 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 6th officina. ∂ N FILЄPICЧS MЧL–TЧS AN, crowned bust facing, wearing loros, holding globus cruciger in right hand, eagle-tipped scepter surmounted by cross in left / VICTORIA AVςЧ, cross potent set on three steps; ς//CONOB. DOC 1f; MIB 1; SB 1447. Superb EF, a few hairlines.

From the Collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s New York, 5 December 1998), lot 524.