Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1167. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Constantine X Ducas. 1059-1067. PB Seal (34mm, 23.03 g, 12h). [+E]MMA NOVHA, Christ enthroned facing, wearing chiton and himation, holding book of Gospels in left hand, right hand in benediction / +K
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D[OV]KA[C], Constantine X standing facing, wearing crown with cross, divitision, and loros, holding globus cruciger in left hand and placing right hand on chest in supplication; to right, the Theotokos standing facing, wearing chiton and maphorion, placing right hand on Constantine’s crown in benediction, left hand before breast in prayer, M
Q flanking her head. BLS I 88; DOCBS -; Vatican -; Orghidan -; Jordanov -; Seibt & Zarnitz 1.1.7. VF, brown-gray patina.
From the Robert E. Hecht Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 147 (6 March 2006), lot 2482.