Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1183. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basileus. Vestes, megas chartularios, krites of the Velon and of the Armeniakoi, 11th century. PB Seal (25mm, 18.79 g, 12h). QKE [BOH QEI...]; MP and OV across field; half-length figure of Theotokos standing left, wearing chiton and maphorion, raising hands toward manus Dei in upper left field / RACILEI/w RECTH MG/LXT(OY)L KPIT/TOV RHL(OY)S/TwN A[PME]/NIAKwN in six lines; – + – above. BLS II 797; DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican -; Orghidan -; Jordanov -. VF, gray patina.

From the Robert E. Hecht Collection.