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Empress Theodora, Wife of Michael VII

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1207. Estimate $3000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. 
Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theodora Doukaina Palaiologina. Wife of Michael VIII, 1253-1282. PB Seal (34mm, 35.92 g, 12h). Struck 1259-1282. MP QV across upper field; Theotokos seated facing on thokos covered with cushion, wearing chiton and maphorion, holding child Christ / QE/ODw/RA EV/CEBE/CTATH/ AVG_/CTA in left field; D_/KAI/NA H/ PALA[I]/OLO/GI[NA] in right (CTs ligate); Theodora standing facing, wearing crown with pendillia, divitision, and loros, right hand placed before breast in supplication, holding double lotus scepter in left hand. BLS I 122a-b corr. (scepter type); DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican 16; Orghidan -; Jordanov -; Seibt & Zarnitz, 1.3.3. Good VF, nice gray-brown surfaces.


From the Robert E. Hecht Collection.