173, Lot: 541. Estimate $150. Sold for $205. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Phocas. 602-610. AV Semissis (18mm, 2.10 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 607-610 AD. Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory advancing right, head left, holding wreath and globus cruciger; CONOB. DOC II 16; MIB II 25; SB 631. VF, wrinkled flan.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection.