271, Lot: 110. Estimate $7500. Sold for $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justinian II. First reign, 685-695. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.42 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 6th officina. Struck 674-680/1. IҺS CRISτOS RЄX RЄςNANτIЧM (second Ч retrograde), facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; cross behind / D IVSτINI ANЧ S SЄRЧ CRISτI, Justinian standing facing, wearing crown and loros, and holding akakia and cross potent se upon two steps; ς//CONO B. DOC 7e.bis; MIB 8a; SB 1248. Superb EF, fully lustrous, traces of strike doubling. Exceptional portrait of Christ.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Superior (8 December 1995), lot 1015.