JUSTIN II GOLD SOLIDUS – SUPER RARE DOUBLE ERROR: OVERSTRIKE ON A ROTATED BROCKAGE – AU BYZANTINE GOLD COIN (Inv. 21197)

$2,500.00

21197. BYZANTINE EMPIRE. JUSTIN II, AD 565–578.
Gold Solidus, 4.25 g, 21 mm. Issue of Constantinople, officina Γ.
Obv. D N IVSTINVS PP AVI, facing bust of Justin II holding Victory. Rev. VICTORIA AVCCC Γ, Constantinopolis seated, looking right, holding scepter and globus cruciger, star in left field, CONOB in exergue.
Sear 346.
AU, minor marks, clipped, but an amazing error of a rotated, overstruck brockage.

The original coin as struck was an obverse brockage with traces of the emperor’s bust visible on the obverse and in incuse on the reverse. The error must have been caught at the mint and the coin restruck. It was placed on the anvil upside–down relative to the dies and then struck once more. The new design is therefore applied over a rotated obverse brockage, an exceedingly rare error.