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Auction 11  12 January 2014
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Lot 579

Estimate: 10 000 USD
Price realized: 8000 USD
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Justinian II. First reign, 685-695 AD. Solidus, 4.38g (7h). Constantinople. Obv: IhS CRISTOS REX-RESNANTIUM, facing bust of Christ, with long hair and full beard, wearing pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, holding book of Gospels in left hand, cross behind head. Rx: D IUSTINI-ANU-S SERV ChRISTI, Justinian standing facing, wearing crown and loros, holding akakia and cross potent on base, officina S in lower right field, [CONOP] in exergue. DO 7b. MIB 8. Berk 186 var. Sear 1248. Virtually flawless solidus with the images of Christ and Justinian perfectly struck. Only a bit of the legend on the left side of the reverse is missing. Mint State

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