JUSTIN II. 565-578 AD. AV Solidus (4.50 gm). Struck indictional year 4 
(=570/571 AD). Sicilian mint. D N I-VSTI-NVS P P AVG, helmeted and 
cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger and shield decorated with 
horseman spearing a fallen enemy / 

Rev: VICTORI-A AVGGG, Constantinopolis, helmeted, seated facing, head 
right, holding sceptre in left hand and globe in right; ­/CONOB. 

DOC I -; MIB 21 (Ravenna); BN -; N. Fairhead and 
W. Hahn, "The Monte Judica Hoard and the Sicilian Moneta Auri under 
Justinian I and Justin II" in Studies in Early Byzantine Gold Coinage, 
ANSNS 17 (1988), 88 = Berk 72D (this coin); SB 416A. EF. Extremely rare - 
only 9 recorded specimens! [See color plate 15] ($1500) 

From the Jürgen K. Schmidt Collection. Ex "An Important Private Collection of Byzantine Coins" (Sotheby's, 2 November 1998), lot 117.


Triton V Sale, 16 Jan 2002, lot 2263.
 
 Lot sold for $2000, plus buyers fees.

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