Nomos 19

Philippicus (Bardanes), 711-713. Solidus (Gold, 20 mm, 4.56 g, 5 h), Constantinople, 10th officina (I). d N FILEPPICЧS MЧL-TЧS AN Crowned bust of Philippicus facing, wearing loros and holding globus cruciger in his right hand and eagle-tipped scepter in his left. Rev. VICTORIA AVSЧ I / CONOB Cross potent on base and three steps. Cf. DOC 1j, MIB 1 and SB 1447, but this legend apparently unpublished. A superb, toned coin with an exceptionally clear and well-struck obverse. Minor flatness on the reverse, otherwise, good extremely fine.

From the Trausnitz Collection, ex G. Hirsch 135, 19 January 1983, 803.

The legend on the obverse of this coin is quite extraordinary! All the other examples of this type known have the correct Latin spelling of the emperor's name, Filepicus, but this one, with the double P, shows clearly that the engraver was thinking of how the name was spelled in Greek! In some ways this is actually a wonderful die engraver's mistake.
Interestingly enough, there are other examples from the same obverse die, but which seem to have been either unnoticed or noticed, but not recognized! CNG has had at least three: CNG 109, 2018, 768, CNG 105, 2017, 1046 and Triton VI, 2003, 1203 in all three the second P was unnoticed, including the tremendously legible Triton piece; another appeared as Heritage 3067, 2018, 30397 (the second P was recorded, but they did not realize what it was, it cannot be seen in the illustration because the coin is in a slab...