Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1393. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUSTINIAN II. First Reign, 685-695 AD. AV Solidus (4.44 gm, 6h). Italian (Naples?) mint. DN IVSTINI ANVS PP AV, facing bust, wearing crown and chlamys, holding globus cruciger / VICTORA AVGUS, cross potent on three steps; G/CONOB. DOC II -; cf. MIB III N28; cf. SB 1311A. Superb EF, exceptional style. ($3000)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica "Autumn Sale" (26-27 October 1995), lot 869.

The portrait is very close to those solidi attributed to the Naples mint by Hahn, especially in the details of the crown and drapery. The Naples mint solidi (MIB 28, N28, 29), however, have either a linear cross or a pellet cross as an officina mark, not extant on this specimen.