Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 845. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Michael VIII Palaeologus, with Andronicus II. 1261-1282. Æ Trachy (3.11 g, 6h). Class I, Type III. Thessalonica mint. O/AΓI/Θ/Є down left field [O]/Δ/O/P down right, nimbate, half-length facing bust of St. Theodore, in military outfit, holding spear and round shield decorated with eight-rayed star / A/Δ/P[...] down left field, X/[–/M down right], half-length facing busts of Andronicus and Michael, each wearing loros and holding labarum and sword between them; above, half-length bust of St. Michael the Archangel. DOC 212-5; PCPC 86; SB 2323. VF, dark green patina.