Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 460. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Andronicus III Palaeologus. 1328-1341. BI Tornese (0.72 g, 6h). “Politikon” coinage. Constantinople mint. +ΠOΛITIKOИ, facing bust of Theotokos between m Θ / Two three-quarter length facing figures of Andronicus III, bearded, wearing crown and loros, right hand on breast, and St. Demetrius, holding cross on breast; A/N/Δ/N on left, [Γ]/O/A in center, Δ/M/[H/N] on right. DOC 885; SB 2570. VF, lightly toned, porous, edge split. Better than the usual strike. Rare.