Watch List notes:

Silk Road Region, Local Issue AV 'Solidus'. Imitating a solidus of Justinian I. 6th-7th centuries AD. Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger and shield decorated with horseman motif, garbled legend around / Victory standing facing, head to left, holding voided cross and globus cruciger, garbled legend around and in exergue. For prototype cf. Sear 139; 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. 343-7; cf. Göbl, Antike, 2647;
Roma E-90, 676. 0.72g, 17mm, 6h.

Near Extremely Fine.