370, Lot: 547. Estimate $200. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anastasius I. 491-518. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.49 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 1st officina. Struck circa 507-518. Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with soldier on horseback motif / Victory standing left, holding staff surmounted by reversed staurogram; star to left; A//CONOB. DOC 7a; MIBE 7; SB 5. VF, struck from a worn obverse die, small graffito on both sides.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, purchased from Ghassan Toubiya, January 1982.