Ancient Gold
Lot 3170 Session 11 (9.30am Friday) Ancient Gold
Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $270
JUSTIN II, (A.D.565-578), gold solidus, Constantinople mint, issued 565-578, (4.384 grams), obv. bust of Justin II facing, with plume and diadem, two pearls at each side, wearing cuirass, and holding globe surmounted by Victory, D N I VSTI NVS PP AVI around, rev. Constantinople seated looking right, with helmet tunic and mantle, on right shoulder aegis, left hand holds a spear, cross on globe, around VICTORI A AVGGG **Q*, CONOB in exergue, (S.345, DOC 4h, BMC 12). Some mint bloom, minor scratch on reverse, otherwise nearly extremely fine.
Ex Dr. Colin Burnside Collection, and previously from Noble Numismatics Sale 60 (lot 1723).
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