375, Lot: 731. Estimate $300. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constans II. 641-668. AR 1/8 Siliqua (30 Nummi) (9mm, 0.15 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa 647-651(?). Crowned and draped bust facing, with short beard / RM monogram combined with short-barred cross. DOC 80a (Constantine IV); MIB 75 (Constantine IV); SB 1125A; O’Hara, “A Find of Byzantine Silver from the Mint of Rome for the Period A.D. 641-752,” SNR 64, 1985, p. 107, Type 3. Fine, toned, a few deposits, flan slightly bent. Very rare.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Michael D. O’Hara Collection (Morton & Eden 75, 2 July 2015), lot 64 (hammer £400).