Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1122. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil. Excubitor, 7th century. PB Seal (24mm, 17.32 g, 12h). QEOTOKE BOHQEI in cruciform monogram / +BAC/ILIw EX/KOVBIT/OPI+ in four lines. BLS I -; DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican -; Orghidan -; Jordanov -. VF.

From the Robert E. Hecht Collection.

Excubitores were an elite unit of the imperial guard, under the direction of the domestikos ton exkoubiton.