Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1303. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUSTINIAN I. 527-565 AD. Æ Follis (22.46 gm, 6h). Constantinople mint. Dated RY 12 (538/9 AD). D N IVSTINIANVS P P AVG, diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear over shoulder and shield; cross to right / Large M; cross above; ANNO XII across field; A/CON. DOC I 37a; MIB I 95a; SB 163. EF, dark brown patina, die break(?) in field above date. ($500)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Kovacs XII (30 November, 1995), lot 426.