Byzantine Silver & Bronze Coins
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Lot 3668 Session 11 (9:30am Thursday) Byzantine Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $150
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $100
VANDALS, Gelimer (530-534), copper nummus (0.68 g), Carthage mint, obv. GEIL [AMIR], portion of diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, rev. Gelimer monogram within wreath, (MEC 1, 28-30 [Pl.2], BMC Vandals 4-6, MIB I, [Pl.42.25], CNG E sale 235 [lot 545 realised $490]); Justinian I, (527-565) copper Pentanummium (1.71 g), Rome or uncertain mint, obv. diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right ..ANVS PP AV, rev. large V within wreath, (S.337, DOC I 369, cf.BMC Vandals Pl.VI, 21 [Theodoric]), Ostrogoths, Baduila (541-552), copper nummus (0.71 g), Rome mint, struck 549/550-552, obv. draped bust right, rev. [D]N REX over B in two lines within wreath, (BMC Vandals 28-36, Pl.XI, 16-21, MIB I, [Pl.41,88], MEC 1, 164-5). Fine - very fine for issue, as usual short on flan, all very scarce. (3)
Ex Elvira Elisa Clain-Stefanelli (1914-2001) collection [as the Demarete Collection].
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