Ancients
Justinian II, First Reign (AD 685-695). AV solidus (20mm, 4.35 gm, 7h). NGC MS 3/3 - 3/5, clipped. Constantinople, 1st officina, AD 692-695. IhS CRIStDS RЄX-RЄϚNANtIЧM (partially retrograde), half-length bust of Christ facing, with long hair and full beard, wearing pallium and colobium, cross behind head, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left arm / D IЧStINI-AN-ЧS SERЧ CHRIStI A, full-length figure of Justinian II standing facing, wearing crown and loros, cross potent with base on two steps in right hand, akakia in left; CONO-P below. Sear 1248. Struck on a bright flashy flan.
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