One of Eight Known

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 836. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Leo V the Armenian. 813-820. AV Solidus (4.46 g, 6h). Struck 813. Constantinople mint. LЄ On bASILЄЧ, crowned facing bust, wearing short beard and chlamys, holding cross potent and akakia; pellet in outer left field / LЄ On dЄ SPOτIS (star) X, crowned facing bust, wearing short beard and loros, holding globus cruciger; pellet in outer left field. DOC 1; Füeg 1.A; BN p. 506; Ratto 1794 (same dies); SB 1626; Gemini I, lot 505 (same dies). Superb EF, area of flat strike at edge. Extremely rare, one of eight known specimens, two of which are in public collections.