Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2059. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constans II. 641-668. AV Solidus (4.32 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 1st officina. Struck circa AD 663-668. Draped facing bust, bearded and wearing crown with plume, holding globus cruciger; A (officina) in legend / Tiberius, Constantine IV, and Heraclius, each wearing crown topped with cross, standing facing, each holding globus cruciger; CONOB. Cf. DOC II 40 (for type); SB 972. Near EF. area of flat strike on reverse.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.