82, Lot: 231. Estimate $150. Sold for $92. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CONSTANTINOPLE COMMEMORATIVE. After 330 AD. AR Third-Siliqua (14mm, 1.20 gm). Constantinople mint. Helmeted and draped bust of Constantinopolis right / Large K. Bendall 8c; Kent pl. 13, 28. Toned VF, minor porosity.
From Electronic Auction 80, lot 231.
Simon Bendall, in “Anonymous Silver Coinage of the 4th to 6th Centuries AD," RN 2002, provides a numismatic and historiographic basis for dating this anonymous siliqua to the decades after 530 AD.