Byzantine Gold Coins
Lot 4439 Session 16 (9.30am Friday) Byzantine Gold Coins
Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $560
BASIL I AND CONSTANTINE, (867-886), gold solidus (4.41 g), Constantinople mint, struck 868-879, obv. Christ enthroned facing wearing nimbus, raising right hand in benediction, also holding Gospels, the throne has curved ornamented arms, around + IhS XPS REX REGNANTIUM*, rev. bASILIOS ET CONSTANT' AUGG' b' around, facing busts of Basil I wearing loros on left and Constantine wearing chlamys on right, both crowned, between them long patriarchal cross, (S.1704, DOC 2b, R.1858). Good very fine, scarce.
Ex Decades Collection and previously from CNG esale 86, March 31, 2004, (lot 102).
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