CNG 100, Lot: 445. Estimate $1000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AVARS. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.54 g, 6h). In the name of Byantine emperors Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine (610-641). LITOΩ•-TΩIΩ (L retrograde), crowned facing busts of Heraclius, bearded, and Heraclius Constantine, with mustache; cross above / VICTOR ΛVςτZ, cross potent set on three steps; Θ//CONOB. Elemér 14 (this coin, obv. only illustrated); cf. Bóna 1-3; MIBE –. Superb EF, a few minor scratches. Extremely rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex A. Hess (14 June 1922), lot 246.

An unusual obverse die showing Heraclius Constantine with a prominent mustache (looking rather like whiskers!).