271, Lot: 114. Estimate $1500. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Leontius. 695-698. AV Semissis (17mm, 2.09 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. D LЄO N PЄ AV, crowned facing bust, wearing medium beard and loros, and holding globus cruciger / VICTORIA AVςЧς, cross potent set upon globus. DOC 3; MIB 4; SB 1332. Near EF. Rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 340; William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s New York 6055, 5 December 1990), lot 469.