Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 1251. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANASTASIUS I. 491-518 AD. AV Solidus (4.49 gm). Constantinople mint. Struck 498 AD. Helmeted, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear and shield / Victory standing left, holding staff with reversed chi-rho; * I/CONOB. DOC I 6 var. (officina); SB 4. Superb EF. The tenth officina is unlisted in the references, but several are known in private collections. ($750)

Ex Freeman & Sear 5 (14 May, 1999), lot 541.