The Placidia Collection: Coins of Eastern Rome and the Byzantine Empire
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Solidus c. 610/611. Year H.
Obv. DNN HЄRA - CLI PЄRP AVG Draped and cuirassed bust facing, wearing plumed helmet with pendilia. In r. hand globus cruciger.
Rev. VICTOR I - A AVGG H Cross potent on four steps. CONOB beneath.
Sear 894. DOC p. 238 (Class I). MIB 108a.
4.46 g. Extremely rare. Only three specimens known and of these the only one in private possession. Slight edge faults. Extremely fine.
Grierson writes ´´…..represents a brief preliminary issue lasting at most a few months. The only specimens known to me are in the B. N. and at Milan (Museo Civico).
Ex Auction Münzzentrum. Cologne, September 1990. Lot 612.
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Update: Ex Sothebys London 1988, lot 1012. From the Michael OHara Collection.