Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1133. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Paul. Metropolitan of Seleucia, 8th-9th century. PB Seal (28mm, 18.23 g, 12h). +CEPROCVNOVMENTOV[...], facing bust of the Theotokos, wearing chiton and maphorion, holding medallion of the child Christ; cruciform monograms flanking / QEOTOKE [BOHQEI] Tw Cw DOVLw in circular inscription; +PAVL/w MHTRO/POLITH C/ELOVK/CIAC in five lines in center. BLS I -; DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican -; Orghidan -; Jordanov -. VF, brown-gray patina.

From the Robert E. Hecht Collection.