Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1972. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anastasius I. 491-518. AV Solidus (4.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 8th officina. Struck AD 498-518. Pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear and shield; no diadem ribbons / Victory standing left, holding staff terminating in inverted Christogram; star in left field; H//CONOB. DOC I 7h; SB 5. EF, hairline die break in right obverse field, minor traces of encrustation in fields.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.