288, Lot: 523. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justinian I. 527-565. Æ Decanummium (17mm, 2.95 g, 6h). Perugia(?) mint. Dated RY 26 (552/3). Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Large I; cross above, A/N/N/O X/X/VI (date) across field; P in exergue. DOC 357; MIBE 101a; SB 328. Fine, green patina, minor porosity, traces of deposits.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 270. Ex Classical Numismatic Group E-151, lot 277.

The attribution to Perugia remains conjectural. Hahn (MIBE) attributes it to an imitative Italian mint, active during Justinian’s reconquest.