CNG 108, Lot: 723. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justin II. 565-578. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.37 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Struck circa 567/70-578. D N I-VSTI-NVS P P AVG, helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, holding Victory on globe and shield / VICTORI-A AVGGG, Constantinopolis enthroned facing, head right, holding scepter and globus cruciger; T//CONOB. DOC –; MIBE 17; Metcalf, Thess. 413-8 = Oeconomides-Caramessini & Touratsoglou, Thessaloniki 63-7; SB 364C. In NGC encapsulation, 3807367-013, graded MS, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5. Extremely rare, only two in CoinArchives (both from the Dimitriadis collection).

Ex Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection (Heritage 3035, 3 September 2014), lot 29326; “An important Private Collection of Byzantine Coins” (Sotheby’s New York, 2 November 1988), lot 107.