CNG 90, Lot: 1791. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Phocas. 602-610. AV Solidus (19mm, 3.98 g, 7h). Light weight issue of 22 siliquae. Constantinople mint, 10th officina. Struck 609/10. Crowned, draped, and cuirassed facing bust, holding cross / Angel standing facing, holding globus cruciger and long staff terminating in staurogram; star to right; I//OB+*. DOC –; MIBE N19 (this coin cited); SB 627; Berk, Roman 104 (this coin). Near EF, a few deposits. Rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York (2 November 1998), lot 177.