Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1757. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHILIPPICUS (Bardanes). 711-713 AD. Æ Decanummium (1.84 gm). Constantinople mint. Dated year 1 (711/2 AD). Facing bust with short beard, wearing crown and loros, holding globus cruciger and eagle tipped sceptre / Large I; cross to left, I to right, G//CON. DOC II 13; MIB III 23; SB 1457. Near VF, weak strike, contrasting brown and black patina. Attractive for this late appearance of this denomination. ($200)

From the Christopher Connell Collection.