CNG 100, Lot: 279. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justin II. 565-578. AV Solidus (20mm, 3.70 g, 6h). Light weight issue of 20 siliquae. Constantinople mint, 10th officina. Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, holding Victory on globe and shield / Constantinopolis seated facing, head right, holding scepter and globe; I://OBXX. DOC 141 (Antioch); MIBE 9c; SB 351. Near EF, lustrous. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack’s, 5 May 1984), lot 1616.