398, Lot: 629. Estimate $75. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Leo IV the Khazar, with Constantine VI, Leo III, and Constantine V. 775-780. Æ Follis (22mm, 5.10 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 778-780. Leo IV and Constantine VI, each wearing crown and chlamys, seated facing on a double throne with curved arms; cross in field above, single pellet to left / Crowned facing busts of Leo III and Constantine V each wearing loros, set on horizontal bar; cross in field above, two pellets to left, three pellets to right; below, M above A, flanked by X and N. DOC 6.5-6; SB 1587. Near VF, dark brown to black patina, flatly struck in a couple of areas. Rare.

From the Iconodule Collection.