Solidus 692/695. Officina Є.
Obv. IhS CRISTOS RЄX REGNANTIЧM Bust of Christ with full beard and long hair facing, cross behind head, wearing pallium and colobium and raising r. hand in benediction. Book of Gospels in l. hand.
Rev. D IЧSTINI(ANЧ)S SЄRЧ ChRISTI Crowned figure of Justinian II facing, wearing loros and holding cross potent on two steps in r hand, akakia in l. hand. In lower r. field at end of reverse legend Є. CONOP below.
DOC 7e. MIB 8a. S. 1248.
4,47 g. Rare. Splendid portrayal of Christ. Some weakness in reverse strike. Otherwise brilliant uncirculated.
Purchased from Münzen & Medaillen AG, Basel, in February 1971.
The first depiction of Christ on a coin