Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1178. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justinian II. First reign, 685-695. Æ Follis (5.56 g, 6h). Syracuse mint. Struck 691/2. Justinian standing facing, wearing helmet and military dress, holding spear and globus cruciger; plant to right, all within reel border / Large M; monogram above, C/VP/A (P retrograde) to left, K/OV/CI to right; SCL. DOC 61; Anastasi 277a; Spahr 225; MIB 71 var. (branch to left on obv.); SB 1301 var. (same). VF, green patina, traces of earthen deposits.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.