Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1973. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $335. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anastasius I. 491-518. AV Solidus (4.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 10th 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; I//CONOB. DOC I 7j; SB 5. EF, minor trace of encrustation, visible under lens, in hair of Victory.

Ex Stack’s (2-4 December 1997), lot 371.