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CNG 88, Lot: 1763. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNCERTAIN GERMANIC TRIBES. Late 6th-7th centuries. AV Solidus (18mm, 4.21 g, 1h). Imitating Byzantine emperor Constantine IV. Schematized helmeted and cuirassed facing bust, holding spear and shield; A to left, AV to right / Schematized cross potent on two steps flanked by two figures with cross-scepter “tails” to right; Δ to left, retrograde C above A to right, N in exergue. Cf. Triton VIII, lot 1290, otherwise unpublished. EF. Extremely rare.


Ex Freeman & Sear 10 (11 February 2004), lot 511.