Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1151. Estimate $300.
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.
Sold For $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Symeon. Protospatharios and
anagrapheus of the
Armeniakoi, 10th century. PB Seal (27mm, 9.05 g, 12h). [KE R]OH
QHEI [Tw C
w D]OV
Lw, patriarchal cross, with X at the intersections, on three steps from which tendrils sprout / +CVME
w/NH A’ C
PAQ/AR, S ANA
GR/AFEI TON AR/MENIAK[...] in five lines; ornaments above and below. Cf. BLS II 92 (for similar obverse type); cf. DOCBS IV 22.3 (for different seal of same person); Seyrig -; Vatican -; Orghidan -; Jordanov - . Good VF, gray-tan patina.
From the Robert E. Hecht Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 152 (10 October 2006), lot 2697.
An anagrapheus was a tax official, usually assigned to a specific theme.
