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20 November 2016
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A beautiful Solidus of Justinian II

Starting Price: 750 CHF
Hammer Price:  2800 CHF
Lot 1000

Justinian II, second reign, 705-711, with Tiberius. Solidus (Gold, 20mm, 4.35 g 6), Constantinople, 705-711. d N IhS ChS RЄX RЄGNANTIЧM Bust of Christ facing, with short, curly hair and a short beard, wearing pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left; behind, cross. Rev. d N IЧSTINIANЧS ЄT TIbЄRIЧS PP A' Crowned half-length figures of Justinian II, on left, and Tiberius, as a child not an infant, on right, both wearing chlamys and holding between them, in their right hands, a cross potent on two steps. DOC 2b. MIB 2b. SB 1414. A most attractive example without the usual areas of striking flatness on reverse. Somewhat weakly struck on obverse, otherwise, extremely fine.

Online bidding closes: 20 Nov 2016, 23:19:30 CET Current Date & Time: 19 Apr 2024, 00:01:31 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:2800 CHF by g.savonarola (15 bids)
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