Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1329. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUSTIN II. 565-578 AD. AV Solidus (4.44 gm, 6h). Carthage mint. Dated RY(?) 6 (570/1 AD). D N IVSTINVS P P AV, diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger and shield / VICTORIA AVGGG, Constantinople seated facing, head right, holding spear and globus cruciger; S/CONOB. DOC I 190d; Morrisson, Carthage 15-17 (dies unlisted); MIB II 18b; SB 391. EF. Rare. ($500)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 35 (20 September 1995), lot 1271.

Morrisson interprets the dates on Carthage solidi of Justin II as regnal years, while Hahn in MIB sees them as cyclical indictional years, the form used in late Carthage gold.