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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 1078. Estimate $300. 
Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004. 
Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUSTINIAN I. 527-565 AD. Æ 2 Nummi (0.32 gm). Thessalonica mint. Struck circa 527-538 AD. [DN IVSTINIA]NVS, diademed bust right / Large B, flanked by A P. DOC I -; MIB I 177; Metcalf 31 (this coin); SB 196A. VF, dark green patina. Very rare; four specimens recorded by Metcalf, with a handful of others found since that publication. ($300)

From the Christopher Connell Collection. Ex William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby's, 5-6 December 1990), lot 92 (part of).