Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1622. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUSTIN II. 565-578 AD. AV Solidus (4.35 g, 6h). Carthage mint. Dated RY(?) 10 (574/5 AD). D N IVSTI NVS P P AV, helmeted, and cuirassed facing bust, holding Victory on globus and shield / VICTORI A AVGGG, Constantinople seated facing, head right, holding spear and globus cruciger; I/CONOB. DOC I 190g; Morrisson, Carthage 37 (same obv. die); MIB II 18b; SB 391. EF, usual rough die work. ($500)

Morrisson interprets the dates on Carthage solidi of Justin II as regnal years, while Hahn in MIB sees them as cyclical indictional years, the form used on later Carthage gold.