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Auction: 355 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NY INC, Grand Hyatt
Lot: 300

Byzantine Empire. Justinian I (527-565), AV Solidus, (23mm, 4.48g), Constantinople mint, struck 545-565, Diademed and cuirassed bust facing, wearing plumed helmet and holding globus cruciger and shield, rev. Angel standing facing, holding long staff surmounted by staurogram and globus cruciger; star to right; conob in exergue (DOC 9c var. (no pellets on breastplate); MIBE 7; SB 140), lustrous and in superb high relief, extremely fine

Provenance
CNG, eAuction 214, 15 July 2009, lot 484