Catalogue
Anastasius I, (A.D.491-518), AE folles, post reform coinage from 498, small size, Constantinople mint, (8.35 g), obv. bust to right around D N ANASTASIVS P P AVG, rev. M, cross above, CON in exergue, (S.14, DOC 16a, BMC 41, T. 31, Ratto 354). Earthern patination, very fine and very scarce in this condition.
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Byzantine coins, a small group of issues including folles or forty nummi of Maurice Tiberius, Antioch, year 3, another Constantinople year 2, (S.492, 532); Heraclius, Constantinople year 2 (S.804), another year 8 (S.806), another overstruck Nicomedia year 4, on a Maurice Tiberius year 8 (S.834); another half follis Constantinople mint year 10 (S.814); a plated histamenon nomisma of Nicophorus III (S.1882); an Arab-Byzantine follis of Fin struck at Yubna an emergency military issue (p.71 Foss), cf.Foss 93-100; Greek Imperial AE 23, from Antioch, Pisidia issued by Elagabalus, rev. Tyche (Genius of the colony) standing left, (SNG France 1177, Krzyzanowska IX/31). Fair - nearly very fine. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
Vandals, Gelimer, (530-534), silver fifty denarii (1.17 g), obv. DN REX G [E]IIMIR, diademed draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. D N/L in two lines across field, [cross above], all within wreath), (MEC 1, 26; BMC Vandals 2). Good very fine, struck on irregularly-shaped flan and very rare.
Estimate $400
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