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211, Lot: 449. Estimate $75.
Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Heraclius, with Martina and Heraclius Constantine. 610-641. Æ Follis (25mm, 4.47 g, 11h). Local issue imitating Constantinople mint, 3rd officina. Dated RY 10 (619/20). Heraclius, in center, flanked by Martina, on left, and Heraclius Constantine, on right, each wearing crown and chlamys and holding globus-cruciger / Large M; cross above, A/N/N/O P/X across fields; Γ//CON. Cf. DOC 92a; cf. MIB 161; cf. SB 806. Fine, earthen green patina.


From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

These distinctive imitative folles were probably struck in Syria during the campaign against the Persians in the 620s, when disordered conditions led to the production of local coinages. Although relatively scarce today, they must have been struck in vast quantities.