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303, Lot: 506. Estimate $100.
Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justin II, with Sophia. 565-578. Æ Half Follis (20mm, 4.71 g, 12h). Uncertain military mint. Struck 565-572. Nimbate figures of Justin and Sophia seated facing on double throne, holding globus cruciger and cruciform scepter, respectively / Large XX; cross above; ROM. DOC 207 (Rome); MIBE 95a; SB 404 (Rome). Fine, rough green patina.


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

Hahn (MIBE) gives these half folles of Justin II in his category of “Moneta Militarii Imitativa”, a series of bronzes of very similar style bearing the mint marks of Constantinople, Nicomedia, Cyzicus and other mints. The entire series, its place of minting and the reason for its issue, remains one of the great puzzles of Byzantine numismatics.