CNG 100, Lot: 304. Estimate $1000. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constans II, with Constantine IV, Heraclius, and Tiberius. 641-668. AV Solidus (16mm, 4.35 g, 6h). Carthage mint. Struck 659-668. Crowned and draped busts of Constans, holding [globus cruciger], and Constantine facing; cross above / Cross on oblong globe flanked by crowned figures of Heraclius and Tiberius standing facing; CONOB. DOC –; MIB 77; SB 1045A. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare, only one cited in MIB (Glendining, December 1922, no. 83 = Birmingham), one additional in CoinArchives (Leu 86, lot 1105 [hammer of 3,200 CHF]).

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Glenn Woods, January 2004. Ex Dr. Anton Dreesman Collection (Part II, Spink 144, 13 July 2000), lot 511.