CNG 100, Lot: 2047. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Constantine VI & Irene, with Leo III, Constantine V, and Leo IV. 780-797. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.35 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 792-circa 793. Crowned facing busts of Constantine IV, draped and holding globus cruciger, and Irene, wearing loros and holding cruciform scepter; cross above, • between / Constantine V, Leo III, and Leo IV seated facing, each crowned and draped. DOC 2b; Füeg 4 (C.4.5/Ir.4.8); Berk 234 (this coin); SB 1591. VF, minor areas of flat strike.
From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection. Ex Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 275, 7 March 2012), lot 221; ‘An Important Private Collection of Byzantine Coins’ (Sotheby’s New York, 2 November 1998), lot 419.