Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1081. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Time of Justinian I, circa 527-565. AR 1/2 Siliqua (0.88 g, 12h). Constantinople mint. Helmeted, draped, and cuirassed bust of Roma right / Large P. Cf. Bendall, Anonymous, type 7, 15 (for type); Kent, Urbs pl. 2, 29; Vagi 3039 (c. 330-346). Good VF, toned.

Bendall dates his type 7 to circa 430, but the style and lower weight of the present coin suggests it was actually struck at a later time. A similar example is Bendall’s type 8, which he breaks into two subtypes, 8a and 8b, struck circa 430 and 530, respectively. Bendall notes that the style of the latter were superior to the first, and weighed slightly less. Thus this coin may represent a similar reissue of Bendall’s type 7 around the same time of the revival of his type 8.