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Triton XVIII, Lot: 1353. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine. Sebastos and mystikos, circa 1250. PB Seal (44mm, 25.71 g, 12h). St. George Kouperiotes, wearing military attire, standing facing, holding spear in right hand, shield in left; Ο/ ΓЄ/ωP/ΓI/O/C to left, O/ K(OV)/ΠЄ/PIω/TH/C to right / +/CΦPAΓIC/ CЄRA(CT)OV/ MV(CT)IKOV/ KωN(CT)AN/TINOV/–•– across field. Laurent II 128; Zacos Sale I (Spink 127), lot 69 (same dies). Near EF, beige patina, slightly uneven strike. An attractive example, much better than the Zacos specimen.


From the Iconodule Collection.

St. George’s epithet links him to the Kouperiotes monastery, the location of which is uncertain.

Sebastos, the Greek equivalent of the Latin augustus, was an honorific title by the time of Constantine. A mystikos was a private secretary to the emperor.