Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1700. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theodore I Comnenus-Lascaris. Emperor of Nicaea, 1208-1222. EL Aspron Trachy (3.90 g, 6h). Magnesia mint. Struck 1208-1212. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing; pellet-on-staff on either side of throne / Theodore, holding cross-tipped scepter, and St. Theodore, holding sheathed sword, standing facing, both holding staff surmounted by eight-rayed star between them. DOC 2.3-2.4; SB 2064. Good VF, obverse double struck.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection.