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CNG 99, Lot: 805. Estimate $300.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Heraclius, with Heraclius Constantine. 610-641. Æ Follis (32mm, 11.43 g, 12h). Seleucia Isauriae mint, 2nd officina. Dated RY 7 (616/7). Crowned figures of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine standing facing, both holding globus cruciger; cross between / Large M; Christogram above, date across field; B//SЄLISЧ. DOC 181b; MIB 193; SB 845. Good VF, brown patina. Overstruck on a follis of Phocas.


From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection. Ex Christopher Connell Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 66, 19 May 2004), lot 1730.

The Seleucia Isauriae mint was active between 615 and 618 to support Heraclius’ campaigns against the Sasanians.