Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1170. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Michael VII Ducas. 1071-1078. PB Seal (31mm, 23.6 g, 12h). IC XC across field; Christ enthroned facing, wearing chiton and himation, holding book of Gospels in left hand, right hand in benediction / ...KPAT PwNEOD(OY)K, Michael VII standing facing, wearing crown, divitision, and loros, holding labarum in right hand and globus cruciger in left. Cf. BLS I 95d; Seibt & Zarnitz 3.2.4; DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican -; Orghidan -; Jordanov -. VF, gray patina, areas of heavy wax encrustation.

From the Robert E. Hecht Collection.