CNG 103, Lot: 931. Estimate $750. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine IV Pogonatus. 668-685. AV Solidus (14mm, 4.35 g, 6h). Carthage mint. Dated IY 10 (681/2). Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear and shield / Cross potent with ring on shaft, set on three steps; I to left, globus to right; [CO]NOB (B retrograde). DOC –; MIB 28 var.; Morrisson 11 var.; SB 1191 var. (all with pellet(s) in obv. field). EF, lustrous. Possibly an unpublished variant of a very rare type. No specimens with “ringed” cross potent in CoinArchives.