CNG 108, Lot: 732. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Heraclius. 610-641. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.44 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 10th officina. Struck 610-613. Diademed and cuirassed bust facing, wearing plumed helmet, holding cross / Cross potent set upon two steps; I//CONOB. DOC 1b; MIB 1a; Berk, Roman 114 (this coin illustrated); SB 729. Choice EF, edge lightly clipped. Rare.

From the D. Massey Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 75 (18 November 2013), lot 559; An Important Private Collection of Byzantine Coins (Sotheby’s New York, 2 November 1998), lot 194.