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Search Advanced Search Search By Coin ID     Home ANCIENT/BYZANTINE Ancient Spain (872) Byzantine (753) MEDIEVAL/EARLY WORLD Germany (30) MODERN WORLD COUNTERFEITS AND IMITATIONS   Submit New Coin(s)   Sponsors page Terms of Service Contact Us About Us FAQ Page Coin Detail Click here to see enlarged image. ID:     2780424 Type:     Roman Imperial Issuer:     City Commemoratives Metal:     Silver Denomination:     1/3 Siliqua Struck / Cast:     struck Date Struck:     AD 527-565 Diameter:     15 mm Weight:     0.97 g Die Axis:     6 h Obverse Legend:     Anepigraphic Obverse Description:     Draped bearded bust right Reverse Legend:     Anepigraphic Reverse Description:     Large K Mint Mark:     K Mint:     Constantinople Primary Reference:     Bendall Type unlisted Reference2:     Vagi unlisted Photograph Credit:     Classical Numismatic Group Source:     http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=210679 Price Sold For:     400 USD Grade:     aVF Notes:     (1) eAuction 278: Lot No. 424 (2) Ex William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s New York, 21 June 1991), lot 122 (part of). (3) This enigmatic piece does not match any of the issues published by Bendall (“Some Comments on the Anonymous Silver Coinage of the Fourth to Sixth Centuries AD,” in RN 158, p. 139-60), who attributed the series to the founding and bicentennial of Constantinople. Although the iconography does not quite fit with that of the rest of the series, and an attribution to a bearded emperor is tempting, both the metrology and the thick, beaded borders suggest a relation to commemorative silver coins of struck under Justinian.

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