Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1370. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005. Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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HERACLIUS. 610-641 AD. AV Tremissis (1.45 gm, 7h). Ravenna mint. Struck 637-641 AD. D N HERACLIVS PP AVG, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AVGVSTORV, cross potent; CONOB. DOC II -; cf. MIB III X10; Ricotti-Prina 21 (Pentapolis); cf. SB 902. Near EF. ($500)
From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 23 (19 March 2002), lot 1735.Hahn lists X10 as an Italian imitation, but stylistically it seems to be the counterpart of a semissis (MIB 121) which he attributes to Ravenna.