Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1840. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUSTINIAN II. First Reign, 685-695 AD. AV Solidus (4.14 gm, 7h). Constantinople mint. Struck 685-687 AD. Crowned facing bust, holding globus cruciger; beard indicated by row of dots / Cross potent on three steps; B/CONOBA. DOC I -; MIB III 5; SB 1245A. EF, slightly clipped. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby's, 21 June 1991), lot 487 (part of).

An officina B has heretofore not been recorded for this variety of Justinian II solidus.