303, Lot: 478. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justinian I. 527-565. AR Quarter Siliqua (12mm, 0.79 g, 6h). Ravenna mint. Struck 552-565. Diademed bust right, wearing robe / Large staurogram set on globe; stars flanking; all within wreath. DOC 339; MIBE 78; Ranieri 361; SB 320. VF, toned, small edge chip, edge crack.

From the Bramhall Collection.

The dating and chronology for the Justinian’s Italian silver is debated. Ranieri dates them 552-565, after the DOC catalog. They could very well predate 552, at which time a series of silver coins of reduced weight may have been introduced.