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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1849. Estimate $500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005. 
Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUSTINIAN II. Second Reign, 705-711 AD. Æ Follis (3.76 gm, 6h). Ravenna mint. Crowned facing bust, holding cross potent and globus cruciger / Large M; ANNO X/X/' across field; [RAV]. DOC II 23; E-C 243; MIB III 54; SB 1445. VF for type, rough olive green patina, lightly smoothed. Overstruck on uncertain type. Rare. ($500)

The date is probably not RY 21, as given in DOC and SB, but rather the typical immobilized year 20 with a contraction mark, as on the Constantinople folles of Justinian's second reign.