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271, Lot: 129. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Leo V the Armenian, with Constantine. 813-820. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.45 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. · LЄ On ЬASILЄЧ’, crowned facing bust of Leo, wearing slight beard and chlamys, and holding akakia and cross potent / COnSτ Anτ’ ∂ЄSP’ Є, crowned facing bust of Constantine, wearing chlamys and holding akakia and globus cruciger. DOC 2a; Füeg 2.B.1; SB 1627; Berk 240 (this coin illustrated). Choice EF, superbly lustrous, minor area of striking weakness. Rare.


Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 430.