Justinian II, First Reign (AD 685-695). AV solidus (20mm, 4.40 gm, 7h). NGC MS 4/5 - 3/5, brushed. Constantinople, 9th officina, AD 692-695. IhS CRISΤDS RЄX-RЄϚNANtIЧM (Ч retrograde), 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 / D IЧStINI-AN-ЧS SERЧ CHRIStI Θ, full-length figure of Justinian II standing facing, wearing crown and loros, cross potent with base on two steps in right hand, akakia in left; CONO-P below. Sear 1248. Well centered on lustrous flan.

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