Watch List notes:

Phocas, 602-610. Solidus (Gold, 20mm, 4.50 g 7), Constantinople, 10th officina (I), 609-610. dN FOCAS PERP AVC Draped and cuirassed bust of Phocas facing, wearing crown and holding a globus cruciger in his right hand. Rev. VICTORIA AVGЧ I / CONOB Angel standing facing, holding globus cruciger in his left hand and long, christogram-topped cross in his right. DOC 10j. MIBE 9. SB 620. Lustrous and sharp. Some flat striking on the obverse, otherwise, virtually as struck.


From the collection of the late Hans Gutknecht of Zürich, ex Sternberg XIX, 18 November 1987, 980.