271, Lot: 109. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine IV Pogonatus, with Heraclius and Tiberius. 668-685. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.02 g, 7h). Light weight isue of 22 siliquae. Syracuse mint. Struck IY 3 (674/5). ∂N CONST[A TI]NS ςЧ PP A, crowned facing bust, wearing slight beard and chlamys, and holding globus cruciger / VICTORIA A VςЧ, cross potent set upon three steps; to left and right, respectively, Heraclius and Tiberius standing facing, each wearing crown and chlamys, and holding globus cruciger; Γ·//CONOB:·. DOC 56 var. (obv. legend); MIB 31; Anastasi 222; SB 1202. Near EF, a few minor marks in the fields on the obverse and on the edges.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 311; Bonhams 3 (3 December 1980), lot 207.