Very Rare Justin II Nummus

259, Lot: 427. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justin II. 565-578. Æ Nummus (9mm, 0.72 g, 2h). Carthage mint. Struck 567-578. Nimbate bust facing between two crosses / Large A with stars around. DOC 310 (Justinian I); MIBE 213; SB 282 (same); W.R.O. Hahn, “A Sixth-Century Hoard of Byzantine Small Change from Egypt, and its Contribution to the Classification of African Minimi,” NC (1980), 224-6. Near VF, earthen green patina. Very rare.