148, Lot: 435. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tiberius III (Apsimar). 698-705. Æ Half Follis (21mm, 4.09 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 2nd officina. Dated RY 1 (698/9). Crowned and cuirassed facing bust, holding spear / Large K; date across field; cross above; B. DOC II 12; SB 1368. Good Fine, brown surfaces, copper highlights, minor roughness.

From the Robert Kutcher Collection.

Struck on a triangular flan, most likely made by quartering a large follis of Constantine IV, that has already been re-struck at least once.