Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2109. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philippicus (Bardanes). 711-713. AV Solidus (4.38 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 9th officina. Crowned facing bust, wearing short beard and loros, holding globus cruciger and eagle-tipped sceptre surmounted by star, crown topped with cross / Cross potent on three steps; Q//CONOB. DOC II 1i; SB 1447. Good VF, minor porosity.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.