Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1223. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Antioch. Roger of Salerno. Regent, 1112-1119. Æ Follis (4.03 g, 6h). Second type. Theotokos standing facing, orans; MP ΘV in fields / [KE/BO]HΘEI Tω/Cω ΔOVΛ/OPΛTΓΕ/PIω in five lines. Metcalf, Crusades 89-94; CCS 8. VF, brown and green patina. Overstruck on a first type follis of Tancred, CCS 3a.

From the Norman Frank Collection. Ex Matthew Rich Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 53, 15 March 2000), lot 1974; John Slocum Collection (Sotheby’s, 6 March 1997), lot 87.