271, Lot: 106. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constans II. 641-668. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.44 g, 6h). Rome mint. Dated IY 3 (644/5). ∂N CONSτAN τINЧS PP AVς, crowned facing bust, wearing chlamys and holding globus cruciger / VςCTORIA AVςЧ, cross potent set upon three steps; K to right; Γ (date)//CONOB. DOC 10a (under Heraclonas); MIB 112.1 (same dies as illustration); SB 1117. EF.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 282; Bonhams 3 (3 December 1980), lot 155.