CNG 99, Lot: 840. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theophilus. 829-842. Æ Half Follis (24mm, 3.74 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 830/1-842. Half-length figure of Theophilus facing, wearing loros and tufa decorated with pellets, holding labarum and globus cruciger / + ӨЄO/FILЄ AVG/OVSτЄ SV/ hICAS in four lines. DOC 16b; Morgan Fitts p. 27 (this coin illustrated); SB 1668. Near EF, dark brown patina with hard green deposits. Rare this nice.

From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection. Ex Hauck & Aufhäuser 20 (16 October 2007), lot 602.