Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1704. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

John V Palaeologus, with Anna of Savoy (Regent). 1341-1391. AR Basilikon (0.95 g, 12h). Light series. Constantinople mint. Light series, 1342-1345. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels / Anna, holding trilobe scepter, and John, holding akakia and cross-tipped scepter, standing facing. Bertelè Type I, 153-157; DOC 1109-13; SB 2503. Good VF, toned.

Ex William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s, 5 December 1990), lot 961 (part of; this specimen illustrated); Chios Hoard, 1975 (CH 3, 254), no. 13.