| Heritage World Coin Auctions > NYINC Signature Sale 3121 | Auction date: 13 January 2025 |
| Lot number: 33097 Price realized: 16,000 USD (Approx. 15,610 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Michael III 'the Drunkard' (AD 842-867). AV solidus (20mm, 4.39 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 3/5, slight bend. Constantinople, AD 856-866. IhSЧS X-RIStOS*, half-length bust of Christ facing, with long hair and full beard, wearing pallium and colobium, cross behind head, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left arm / +-mI-XAHL bASILЄ', bust of Michael III facing, wearing crown and diagonal pattern loros, vexillum decorated with cross in right hand, akakia in left. Sear 1688. DOC III 3. Rare. Subtle bend to the flan, otherwise crisp devices atop brilliant fields of marigold. Though now saddled with the unfortunate epithet "the Drunkard," Michael III showed real ability and it was under his reign that the great recovery in Byzantine fortunes later called "the Macedonian Renaissance" began. The son of Theophilus, he was only two years old when his father died and the purple passed to him. A succession of regents, mainly his mother Theodora, ran affairs of state until he reached his majority in AD 856, when his reign truly began. Guided by his uncle, the Caesar Bardas, his regime made astonishing progress on the domestic, diplomatic and military fronts. The Arabs were defeated and pushed back, the Slavs Christianized and incorporated within the Empire, the last embers of Iconoclasm stamped out, and a university established in Constantinople to advance higher learning. Byzantine art and iconography, too, began a strong revival, as indicated by this magnificent gold solidus. Later Byzantine historians blackened Michael's name as a drunken wastrel in order to glorify the dynasty of the man who murdered him and usurped the throne, Basil I the Macedonian, but he deserved better treatment. www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/byzantine-michael-iii-the-drunkard-ad-842-867-av-solidus-20mm-439-gm-6h-ngc-choice-au-4-5-3-5-slight-be/a/3121-33097.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3121-01132025 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Estimate: 8000-12000 USD Certification number: NGC 8214046002 |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61460 | Auction date: 28 January 2025 |
| Lot number: 21047 Price realized: 1,400 USD (Approx. 1,334 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Nicephorus I and Stauracius (AD 803-811). AV solidus (19mm, 4.39 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Constantinople, AD 803-811. hICI-FOROS bASILЄ', crowned facing bust of Nicephorus I, wearing mustache and short beard, chlamys pinned at right shoulder, cross potent with base in right hand, akakia in left / StAVRA-CIS dЄSPO' Є, crowned facing bust of Stauracius, beardless, chlamys pinned at right shoulder, globus cruciger in right hand, akakia in left. Sear 1604. From the Collection of Jonathan K. Kern to Benefit Charity. www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/nicephorus-i-and-stauracius-ad-803-811-av-solidus-19mm-439-gm-6h-ngc-choice-au-5-5-4-5/p/61460-12005.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61460-01282025 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Certification number: NGC 2400908007 |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61495 | Auction date: 21 April 2025 |
| Lot number: 23021 Price realized: 725 USD (Approx. 637 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Heraclius with Heraclius Constantine, and Heraclonas (AD 632-641). AV solidus (20mm, 4.46 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 3/5, light marks. Constantinople, 10th officina, dated Indictional Year 5 (AD 631/2). Heraclius (in center), with long beard and mustache, Heraclius Constantine (on right), beardless, and Heraclonas (on left), beardless, standing facing, each wearing chlamys and crown surmounted by cross, with globus cruciger in right hand / VICTORIA-AVϚЧ I, cross potent on three steps; monogram in left field, Є (indictional date) in right field, CONOB in exergue. Sear 770. www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/byzantine-heraclius-with-heraclius-constantine-and-heraclonas-ad-632-641-av-solidus-20mm-446-gm-6h-ngc-choi/a/61495-23021.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61495-04212025 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Certification number: NGC 8243307009 |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61495 | Auction date: 21 April 2025 |
| Lot number: 23041 Price realized: 675 USD (Approx. 593 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Constantine IV Pogonatus (AD 668-685). AV solidus (19mm, 4.47 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 2/5, bent. Constantinople, 2nd officina, AD 681-685. P CONST-AN-ЧS PP A (partially retrograde), cuirassed bust of Constantine IV facing, turned slightly right, wearing crested helmet, short beard, and mustache, spear in right hand over shoulder, shield decorated with horseman motif in left / VICTORA-AVϚЧ B, cross potent with base on three steps; CONOB below. Sear 1157. www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/byzantine-constantine-iv-pogonatus-ad-668-685-av-solidus-19mm-447-gm-6h-ngc-choice-au-4-5-2-5-bent/a/61495-23041.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61495-04212025 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Certification number: NGC 8243331001 |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > NYINC Signature Sale 3122 | Auction date: 21 January 2025 |
| Lot number: 34261 Price realized: 2,200 USD (Approx. 2,115 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Constantius II, as Augustus (AD 337-361). AV solidus (21mm, 4.50 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 3/5, edge scuff. Nicomedia, 6th officina, AD 351-355. FL IVL CONSTAN-TIVS PERP AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust of Constantius II facing, head slightly right, spear in right hand over shoulder, shield decorated with horseman motif in left / GLORIA-REI-PVBLICAE, Roma (on left), enthroned facing, spear in left hand, and Constantinopolis (on right), enthroned left, right foot on prow, scepter in left hand, jointly holding between them with their right hands a shield inscribed VOT / XXX / MVLT / XXXX; SMNS in exergue. RIC VIII 74. Intricately articulated devices down to the feathers on Roma's crested helmet. From the Collection of Jonathan Kern to Benefit Charity. This beautiful inaugural facing type influenced the design of solidii for the subsequent centuries. www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/roman-imperial/roman-imperial-constantius-ii-as-augustus-ad-337-361-av-solidus-21mm-450-gm-6h-ngc-choice-au-4-5-3-5-edg/a/3122-34261.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3122-01212025 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Certification number: NGC 4374654006 |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61495 | Auction date: 21 April 2025 |
| Lot number: 23003 Price realized: 2,400 USD (Approx. 2,108 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Justinian I the Great (AD 527-565). AV solidus (20mm, 4.50 gm, 7h). NGC Choice MS 4/5 - 5/5. Constantinople, 2nd officina, ca. AD 545-565. D N IVSTINI-ANVS PP AVG, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust of Justinian I facing, wearing pendilia, with globus cruciger in right hand, shield decorated with horseman motif in left / VICTORI-A AVGGG B, Angel standing facing, with grounded staff surmounted by staurogram in right hand, globus cruciger in outstretched left; star in right field, CONOB in exergue. Sear 140. www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/byzantine-justinian-i-the-great-ad-527-565-av-solidus-20mm-450-gm-7h-ngc-choice-ms-4-5-5-5/a/61495-23003.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61495-04212025 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Certification number: NGC 2086514007 |  |
