Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1173. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Eirene Doukaina. Wife of Alexius I, 1081-1118. PB Seal (31mm, 20.68 g, 12h). IC XC across field; facing bust of Christ Pantokrator, holding book of Gospels in left hand, right hand in benediction / [EIPHNH AV
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D(OY)]KAIN, bust or Eirene facing, wearing crown, divitision, and loros, holding scepter in right hand and globus cruciger in left. BLS I 103; DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican -; Orghidan -; Jordanov-. Near VF, some corrosion, gray brown patina.
From the Robert E. Hecht Collection.