Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2058. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $370. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constans II, with Constantine IV, Heraclius, and Tiberius. 641-668. AV Solidus (4.35 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 2nd officina. Struck circa AD 661-663. Draped facing busts of Constans II, bearded, and Constantine IV, beardless, each wearing crown topped with cross (Constans’ with plume); cross above / Cross potent on three steps; Heraclius, wearing crown topped with cross and holding long cross, and Tiberius, wearing crown topped with cross and holding globus cruciger, standing facing on either side; B//CONOB. Cf. DOC II 30b; SB 964. Good VF, light shift strike on obverse, trace of encrustation on reverse.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.