Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 1630. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HERACLIUS. 610-641 AD. Æ Follis (5.60 gm). Neapolis in Palestine mint. Dated year 25 (634/35 AD). Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine standing facing / Large M; A/NEA (numeral in date reversed). DOC II -; MIB X24; SB -. Fine, earthen patina. Struck on a cut down follis. Rare. ($200)

In MIB, Hahn groups the Neapolis bronzes in his "X" category of imitations of Heraclius bronzes. They should be categorized with the issues of Seleuceia and Isaura, as the product of a temporary mint supporting a military campaign, in this case the Byzantine advance against the first wave of Arab Muslim raiders encroaching on Syria-Palestine.