Sale: Triton V, Lot: 2309. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MICHAEL VI, Stratiocus. 1056-1057 AD. AV Tetarteron (3.96 gm). Constantinople mint. MHP QV, facing nimbate bust of Mary orans / + MIXAHL AUTOCRAT', Michael standing on footstool, holding long cross and akakia. DOC III 2; BN 1-2; SB 1841. EF. Rare. [See color plate 15] ($3000)

For previous sale records of this rare coin, see CNG XXVIII (8 December 1993), lot 551 ($3250) and Sotheby's, An Important Private Collection of Byzantine Coins (2 November 1998), lot 531 ($4500).