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Auction XIII  23 March 2017
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Lot 1043

Estimate: 600 GBP
Price realized: 800 GBP
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Constantine IV AV Solidus. Syracuse, circa AD 668-673. D N CONSt..., crowned bust facing, wearing chlamys and holding globus cruciger with thumb emerging from behind globe / VICTORI..., cross potent set on three steps between facing figures of Heraclius and Tiberius, both holding globus cruciger with thumb emerging from behind globe; CONOB in exergue. Cf. MIB 30; DOC 55a; Spahr 161; Sear 1201 (all with spike or finger emerging only from obverse globe); Elsen sale 114, 2012, 526 (same dies). 4.40g, 19mm, 6h.

Very Fine. Very Rare.

The thumb emerging from the globes held by Constantine IV and his family have not been noted in the standard publications.
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