Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1126. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Synetos and Niketas. Apo eparchon, late 7th-early 8th century. PB Seal (34mm, 30.95 g, 12h). Dated IY 12 of Anastasius II (713/14). CVNET(OY)S NI[KETA] APO EPAR[XwN], Anastasius II standing facing, wearing divitision and chlamys, holding globus cruciger in right hand; ł in left field, IB in right / SGENI/KwN KOMM[ER]/KIARIwN AP[O]/QHKHC PA/[MF]VLHAC S[...]/KHD(sic)[...] in six lines. Cf. BLS I 215-9 (seals of Synetos and Niketas of the same indiction); DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican -; Orghidan -; Jordanov -. VF, gray-brown patina, a little rough.

From the Robert E. Hecht Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 142 (10 October 2005), lot 3339.