Sale: Nomos 9, Lot: 317. Estimate CHF750.  Closing Date: Monday, 20 October 2014.  Sold For CHF600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Phocas, 602-610. Solidus (Gold, 20mm, 4.51 g 7), Constantinople, 10th officina (I), 609-610. dNN FOCAS PERP AVC Draped and cuirassed bust of Phocas facing, wearing crown and holding a globus cruciger in his right hand. Rev. VICTORIA AVGU I / CONOB Angel standing facing, holding globus cruciger in his left hand and long, christogram-topped cross in his right. DOC 10j. MIBE 11. SB 620. A splendid lustrous example. Virtually as struck.