Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1879. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LEO III, the Isaurian, with CONSTANTINE V, Copronymus. 720-741 AD. PB Bulla (34mm, 22.38 gm). Imperial Kommerkion of Asia and Caria. Dated IY 7 (738/9 AD). Crowned half length figures of Leo III and Constantine, each wearing chlamys and holding cross between them / TWN/ BACILIK/WN KOMM/EPKIWN AC/IAC S KAPI/AC IZ in six lines. Unpublished (but see pedigree). Choice EF, exceptional green patina with earthen highlights. ($1000)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 1659; Zakos Collection, (Spink 127, 7 October 1998), lot 15.

The kommerkeria were imperial customs stations, where taxes and duties were collected on goods transiting the empire. This particular piece refers to the stations in Asia and Caria.