Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1366. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HERACLIUS, with Heraclius Constantine. 610-641 AD. AV Solidus (4.35 gm, 6h). Uncertain eastern mint. Struck 613-619 AD. bb NN hERACLIUS ET hRA CONST, facing busts of Heraclius, with short beard, and Heraclius Constantine, beardless, on exergual line, both wearing crown and chlamys; cross above / VICTORIA AVSU, cross potent on three steps; I/CONOB. DOC II 187 (Alexandria); Bendall, Jerusalem Type 4 (fig. 8); MIB III 77.3 (Cyprus); SB 851 (Jerusalem). EF, slightly clipped. ($750)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVI (11 June 1993), lot 638.

Bendall, in his recent article on the "Jerusalem" coinage, concludes the evidence is against the Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine solidi being struck at that city. Site finds suggest a mint in either Egypt or northern Syria, with the latter being more probable. These solidi belong in the same category as the bronze issues of Seleucia Isauria and Isaura, being the products of temporary military mints supporting the army as it advances against the Persian occupiers of Byzantine Syria and the east.