Ex Monte Judica Hoard
Triton XVIII, Lot: 1282. Estimate $750. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Anastasius I. 491-518. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.50 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 7th officina. Struck 492-507. D N ANASTA–SIVS P P AVC, helmeted and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder in right hand, shield over left shoulder / VICTORI–A AVCCC, Victory standing left, holding staff surmounted by reversed staurogram in right hand; star to left; Z//CONOB. DOC 7g.2; MIBE 7, pl. 1, 7 = N. Fairhead and W. Hahn, “The Monte Judica Hoard and the Sicilian
Moneta Auri under Justinian I and Justin II,”
SEBGC p. 29, 1 = Berk 32 (this coin); SB 5. Superb EF, lustrous.
From the Collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex “An Important Private Collection of Byzantine Coins” (Sotheby’s New York, 2 November 1998), lot 54; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 434 (June 1981), no.19; Monte Judica Hoard.
This attractive coin belongs to, and is seemingly the earliest issue from, a hoard discovered sometime around 1981 on Monte Judica in the province of Catania, Sicily. The hoard is highly important for the light it shines on the production of Sicilian gold under Justinian I and Justin II.