Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1137. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Stephan I or II. Patriarch of Constantinople, 886/93-925/8. PB Seal (41mm, 26.61 g, 12h). +VPERAGIA QE[OTOKE ROHQEI]Q, the Theotokos Hodeghetria standing facing, holding the child Christ in her left arm / [A]’ CTEFANw/ ARXIEPIC[KO]P/ KwNCTANTIN(OY)/POLEwC NEAC/ RwMHC (ornament) in five lines, + (ornament) + above and below. Cf. BLS I 8 (similar seal of Stephan I); DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican -; Orghidan -; Jordanov -. VF, suspension crack, fragile.

From the Robert E. Hecht Collection.