LOT 3265
Byzantine AE Anonymous Follis. Time of Basil II and Constantine VIII, AD 976-1028.
Constantinople mint. Class A2. ✠ ЄMMA-NOVHΛ, nimbate bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing tunic and himation, raising right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in His left; two dots in each limb of the nimbate cross; IC XC in fields / ✠ IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ЬASILЄЧ ЬASILЄ, legend in four lines across field; ornament above and below. DOC A2.14b; SB 1818 (Class A3). Very Fine.(11.54gr, 29mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Leo V the Armenian with Constantine AE Follis. AD 813-820.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Syracuse mint. Crowned facing bust of Leo, wearing loros and holding cross potent; [Λ] to left, [Є] O ✷ to right / K-ONCT, crowned facing bust of Constantine, wearing chlamys and holding globus cruciger; C I across field. DOC 17; Anastasi 488; SB 1636. 3.36gr, 19mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
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Group of Nine [9] Byzantine AE Coins. 7th-12th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Various emperors. 62gr total.
Near Fine to Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
John II Comnenus EL Aspron Trachy. AD 1118-1143.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Constantinople mint. Struck AD 1122-1142(?). Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing / John and St. George standing facing, holding patriarchal cross set on three steps between them. SB 1942. 2.49gr, 31mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Edge chipped.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
