CNG 100, Lot: 280. Estimate $750. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justin II. 565-578. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.36 g, 6h). Carthage mint. Dated RY 8 (572/3). Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, holding Victory on globe and shield / Constantinopolis seated facing, head right, holding scepter and globus cruciger; H//CONOB. DOC –; MIBE 18b; Morrisson 26-8 (same dies); SB 391. Near EF, lustrous, scratch down obverse, a couple minor digs on reverse. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack’s, 5 May 1984), lot 1615.