303, Lot: 433. Estimate $100. Sold for $117. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justin I. 518-527. Æ Follis (31mm, 16.60 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Large M; cross above, stars flanking; THЄSSOB. DOC 23.1-2; MIBE 70; SB 78. Near VF, brown surfaces. Good style.

From the Bramhall Collection. Ex Robert Bridge Collection (with his ticket).

DOC (p. 43) notes that the mint mark, “THЄSSOB is an irrational legend since OBRYZUM cannot stand for copper. Wroth’s suggestion (p. c) is most likely; that the letters have ‘probably been copied mechanically from the gold coins of the predecessors of Anastasius I which are inscribed THSOB, TESOB.’”