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Numismatic Auction 70  21 Nov 2017
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Lot 281

Estimate: 75 USD
Price realized: 55 USD
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Imitating Anastasius I or Justin I. 491-518 or 518-527. AE follis (32. 48 mm, 14.73 g, 6 h). Contemporary Copy . unofficial mint purporting to be Constantinople. Very crude diademed, draped and cuirassed bust in imitation of the style of early Byzantine AE's; "legend" garbled and fragmentary / Large M between two stars, above, cross, beneath, Γ // CON. Cf. SBCV 19. VF for type, slight bend, attractive glossy patina on devices contrasts with sandy encrustation in fields.
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