Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1400. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHILIPPICUS (Bardanes). 711-713 AD. Æ Half Follis (2.59 gm, 7h). Constantinople mint. Dated RY 1 (711/2 AD). facing bust, wearing crown and loros, holding globus cruciger and eagle-tipped sceptre; fragmentary legend / Large K; cross above; ANNO ) across field; B below. Cf. DOC II 1; MIB III 22; SB 1456. Good VF, brown patina. Very rare and one of the finest known. ($500)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Waddell II (12 September 1987), lot 690.

The bronze coins of Justinian II and Philippicus often have an indicator mark - ' - before the date; on this coin it is elongated and resembles a parenthesis - ).