Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1407. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $7250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTINE V, with Leo IV. 751-775 AD. AV Semissis (2.00 gm, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 751-757 AD. COnSTAnTInOS S LEOn O n•, facing busts of Constantine, bearded, and Leo, beardless, both wearing crown with cross and chlamys / C LE On PA MUL, facing bust of Leo III, wearing crown with cross in circlet and loros, holding cross potent on globus. DOC III 4 = H. Longuet, "Die unedierteb byzantinischen Münzen des Wiener Kabinettes," NZ 77 (1957), pg. 45, 280 (same obverse die); SB 1553. Good VF, slightly clipped flan, usual matte surfaces. One of only two known specimens, and the only one in private hands (the other in Vienna). ($3000)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection.