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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2632799, member: 44316"]This one has some damage. The rim beading is broken off from 2:00 to about 6:30 on the obverse. It was in the very first NFA sale, NFA I, "Collection of Coins from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art" March 20-21, 1975, lot  410. At that time the beading from 2:00 to 3:00 was still there (3:00 to 4:00 on the reverse) but the image showed short thin flan cracks at the boundaries of that region. Apparently Bunker Hunt bought it because it became lot 975 in the Sotheby's Bunker Hunt IV sale, June 19-20, 1991. By then that edge piece had broken off (Sotheby's noted the damage, "edge chipped"). Beware flan cracks on thin coins! It was apparently bought by a dealer who sold it to the man who sold it to me in 2006 (for half what it sold for in NFA I and the same as is sold for in Hunt IV). [ATTACH=full]579576[/ATTACH]  Procopius siliqua. 18-17 mm. 6:00 die axis. 1.69 grams.RIC IX Constantinople 13e2 "R".The coin is rare and valuable even with the damage, but it would be better if the rim were still intact.[/QUOTE]