Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 1279. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOCAS. 602-610 AD. AV Solidus (4.49 gm). Constantinople mint. Struck 602/3 AD. Crowned (with pendilia) and draped facing bust, holding cross / Angel standing facing, holding long P-headed cross and globus cruciger; I/CONOB. DOC II 1d; SB 616. Superb EF. ($500)

Ex Vecchi 14 (5 February 1999), lot 1444.