Avars imitating Constans II AR Miliaresion. Pannonia, 7th century AD. Crowned and draped bust with long beard and moustache facing, holding glober cruciger / Cross potent set on globe on two steps; palm branch and pellet to either side. Cf. K. Bíróné Sey, ‘Eine neuerliche, von Awaren nachgeahmte Silbermünze im Münzkabinett des Ungarischen Nationalmuseums’, in Numizmatikai Közlöny LXXVI-LXXVII, Budapest 1977-8, p. 52, 1 (with find location at Endród-Öregszóló, in Békés); Gitbud & Naumann 38, 6 Dec. 2015, lot 1031 (same obverse die); for prototype cf. MIB 139 and Sear 986a. 2.80g, 21mm, 7h.

Good Very Fine, some flatness, minor flan crack, lightly toned. A very rare contemporary imitative issue from the Avar incursion into the part of Pannonia now in central Hungary.

From the inventory of a European dealer.