BYZANTINE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL COINS
Justinian II, second reign, 705-711, with Tiberius. Solidus (Gold, 20mm, 4.53 g 6), Constantinople, 705-711. d N IhS ChS REX REGNANTIЧM Bust of Christ facing, with short, curly hair and a short beard, wearing pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left; behind, cross. Rev. IЧSTINIANЧS ET TIbERIЧS PP A’ Crowned half-length figures of Justinian II, on left, and Tiberius, as a child not an infant, on right, both wearing chlamys and holding between them, in their right hands, a cross potent on two steps. DOC 2b. MIB 2b. SB 1414. Clear and sharp. A few unimportant areas of flatness on both sides, otherwise , virtually as struck.