Sale: Nomos 7, Lot: 217. Estimate CHF3000.  Closing Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2013.  Sold For CHF3400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justinian II, with Tiberius. Second reign, 705-711. Solidus (Gold, 4.40 g 6), Constantinople, 706. d N IhS CHS REX REGNANTIUM Draped bust of Christ facing, with cross behind his head and with curly hair and a short beard; he holds a book of Gospels in his left hand and raises his right in benediction. Rev. dN IUSTINIANUS MULTUS AN’ Crowned facing bust of Justinian II, wearing loros and holding cross potent on three steps in his right hand and a patriarchal cross on a globe inscribed PAX in his left. DOC 1. MIB 1. SB 1413. Obverse very slightly off center, but very sharply struck and most attractive. Virtually as struck.

Ex Sincona 3, 25 October 2011, 3393 and Gorny & Mosch 89, 5 may 1998, 556.