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Lot 4426    Session 16 (9.30am Friday)    Byzantine Gold Coins

Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $600

JUSTIN II, (A.D.565-578), gold solidus, Constantinople mint, issued 565-578, (4.48 g), 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, extremely fine.

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