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147, Lot: 476. Estimate $200.
Sold for $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Justinian I. 527-565. Æ Follis (27mm, 10.38 g). Rome mint. Struck circa 540-542. Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Large M flanked by star and cross, cross above; ROMA; all within wreath. DOC I 321a; SB 292. VF, green patina, a little rough. Rare.


From the Henry Chitwood Collection.

The wreath around the mark of value celebrates the initially unopposed recapture of Rome in 536 by Belisarius for the empire, which was followed by the epic siege by the Gothic forces of Witigis from March 537 to March 538.