Byzantine Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 4581 SESSION 16 (9.30AM FRIDAY 2ND AUGUST) Byzantine Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $120
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SOLD $200
JUSTINIAN I, (527-565), AE follis, Constantinople mint, (22.27 g) issued year 12 = 538-9, officina B, obv. Justinian bust facing, DN IVSTINI ANVS PP AVC, rev. M, B below, year XII, CON in exergue, large thin flan, (S.163, DOC.37b, BMC 40f, R.493). Dark green and brown patination, nearly extremely fine and scarce.
Ex Dr. V.J.A. Flynn Collection and previously from A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd.
The first year of issue of the new large and heavy type folles.
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