Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2107. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $1110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philippicus (Bardanes). 711-713. AV Solidus (4.40 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 6th officina. Crowned facing bust, wearing short beard and loros, holding globus cruciger and eagle-tipped sceptre surmounted by star, crown topped with cross / Cross potent on three steps; S//CONOB. DOC II 1f; SB 1447. Good VF, area of soft strike, struck on slightly short flan.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.