Watch List notes:

Silk Road Region, Local Issue AV 'Solidus'. Imitating a solidus of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine. Circa 5th - 8th centuries AD. Facing busts of Heraclius, with long beard and plumed helmet, and Heraclius Constantine, wearing crown with a cross; AV and cross above / Cross potent on three steps, blundered legend around. For prototype cf. Sear 749; 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. 1.95g, 22mm, 1h.

Very Fine; with suspension loop attached. Very Rare.