From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.



                  Lot # 537 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$7500 / Price 
                  Realized: US$7000 
                  Justinian II. Gold solidus 



             



            Justinian II. (first reign, 685-695 AD). Gold solidus (4.38 gm). 
            Constantinople, ca. 692-695 AD. IhS CRISTOS REX—RESNANTIUM, facing 
            bust of Christ, with long hair and full beard, wearing pallium and 
            colobium, raising right hand in benediction, holding book of Gospels 
            in left hand, cross behind head / D IUSTINI—ANU—S SERV ChRISTI, 
            Justinian standing facing, wearing crown and loros, holding akakia 
            and cross potent on base, B (= officina 2) in lower right field, 
            CONOP in exergue. DO 7b. MIB 8. Berk 186 var. Sear 1248. The reverse 
            legend on right weakly struck. Mint state. 




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