Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1174. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

John. Bishop, early 11th century. PB Seal (27mm, 16.42 g, 12h). + KE RQ Tw Cw D(OY)Lw in circular inscription; O/R/A/CI down left field; LEIOC down right; facing bust of St. Basil, wearing wreath of berries, holding book of Gospels in left hand, right hand in benediction / IW EPI[CK]OPw in circular inscription; O/C/TE down left field; F/AN/O down right field; facing bust of St. Stephan, holding small cross in left hand and model of church in right hand. BLS I -; DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican -; Orghidan -; Jordanov -. VF.

From the Robert E. Hecht Collection.