Watch List notes:

Silk Road Region, Local Issue AV 'Solidus'. Imitating a solidus of Theodosius II(?). Circa 5th - 8th centuries AD. Constantinopolis seated to left, holding globus cruciger; round shield behind throne, star in right field, letters in exergue, XXXX XXXXXX around / Same as obverse. Cf. V. Raspopova, "Gold Coins and bracteates from Pendjikent," in Coins, Art, and Chronology, pp. 453-460; cf. RIC X 257 for prototype; 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. 347, fig. 13.2. 1.07g, 14mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine.