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E-Sale 89  5 Nov 2021
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Lot 766

Estimate: 150 GBP
Price realized: 800 GBP
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Silk Road Region, Local Issue AV Bracteate. Imitating a solidus of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine. Circa 5th - 8th centuries AD. Facing busts, each wearing chlamys and simple crown with cross on circlet; cross between their heads, blundered legend around / Incuse of obverse. V. Raspopova, "Gold Coins and bracteates from Pendjikent," in Coins, Art, and Chronology (Vienna, 1999), pp. 453-60; cf. Yunyan, Guo. 'Bracteates with Byzantine Coin Patterns along the Silk Road'. In A Globalised Visual Culture?: Towards a Geography of Late Antique Art, edited by Fabio Guidetti and Katharina Meinecke, 2020, p. 345, 25-6, fig. 13.6 and 13.7; cf. Sear 737 for prototype. 1.30g, 19mm, 12h.

Near Extremely Fine; with suspension loop attached. Very Rare.
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