Very Rare Ravenna Follis

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 837. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Heraclius, with Heraclius Constantine. 610-641. Æ Follis (5.13 g, 6h). Ravenna mint. Dated RY 6 (615/6). [DD NN HERACLI]VS ET ERA CONS, crowned, draped, and cuirassed facing busts of Heraclius, with short beard, and Heraclius Constantine, beardless; cross above / XX/XX; large star between, ANN U[I] above; RAV. DOC II 285; cf. Ravenna 174 (for rev. type); MIB III 249; SB 911. VF, brown patina, irregular flan. Very rare.