Ex Hunt and DiVicci

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1278. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $2450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Phocas. 602-610. AV Solidus (4.48 g, 12h). Obverse brockage. Constantinople mint. Crowned, draped, and cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger / Incuse of obverse. Good VF. Very rare Byzantine brockage.

From the J.S. Vogelaar Collection. Ex Phil DeVicci Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 54, 14 June 2000), lot 73; William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby's, 5 December 1990), lot 203.