Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 1624. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOCAS. 602-610 AD. Æ Follis (12.21 gm). Nicomedia mint. Dated year 3 (604/5 AD). Crowned facing bust in consular robes, holding mappa and eagle-tipped sceptre; crown with trefoil decoration / Large XXXX; NIKOB. DOC II -; SB -. Good VF, dark brown patina. Only one coin previously known of this bust type. ($200)

Struck from the same dies as the previously-unique piece published in Classical Numismatic Review XVIII, No. 3 (1993), pg. 6.