MIBE Plate Coin

376, Lot: 613. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tiberius II Constantine. 578-582. Æ Follis (31mm, 14.88 g, 6h). Theoupolis (Antioch) mint. Dated RY 5 (579). Crowned bust facing, wearing consular robes, holding mappa and eagle-tipped scepter / Large m; cross above, date across field; τHЄЧP’. DOC 40; MIBE 47a¹ (this coin illustrated on pl. 15); SB 448. VF, even brown surfaces.

From the M. A. Armstrong Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 2677.