CNG 100, Lot: 289. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Heraclius, with Heraclius Constantine. 610-641. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.43 g, 6h). Uncertain eastern mint (Jerusalem or a mint in Syria?). Struck 613-619. Crowned, draped, and cuirassed facing busts of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine; cross above / Cross potent set on three steps; IΠ//CONOB. DOC 188a var. (rev. legend ending A; Alexandria); MIB 77 (Cyprus?); Bendall, Jerusalem 16 (uncertain eastern military mint?); SB 852 (Jerusalem). EF, lustrous.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Spink 60 (7 October 1987), lot 259.