Byzantine Silver & Bronze Coins

Lot 3036    SESSION 13 (2.30PM THURSDAY 25TH NOV)    Byzantine Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $200
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CONSTANS II, (A.D. 641-668), silver hexagram (3.52 g), Constantinople mint, issued 647-651, obv. large facing bust with short beard of Constans on left and Constantine IV on right, between them a cross, around traces of legend, rev. cross potent on base and three steps, around dEUS AdI]UTA [ROMAN]IS, some letters reversed, (S.995, DOC 54, To.265, BMC 85-86) (illustrated); Constans II, silver half siliqua (10mm), 0.40 g), Carthage mint, Struck 641-647, obv. crowned and draped bust right, holding globus cruciger, rev. cross potent with pellets across lower field, (S.1049, DOC 131, MIB 156) (illustrated); Justinian II, (A.D. 685-695), Constantinople mint, AE half folles, (4), (S. 1261, 1262, DOC 19, 20c, 20d[2]); Leontius (A.D. 695-698), Constantinople mint, AE half follis, (S.1335, DOC 8b?). Fair - fine, half siliqua clipped, mostly scarce. (7)

Ex Dr L.J. Sherwin Collection, previously from Spink Numismatic Circular, May 1982, item 3951; second coin from Stanley Gibbons 26 October 1977, all in packets described, mostly 1970s-1980s.