Superb Imperial Seal

CNG 88, Lot: 1732. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Michael VII Ducas. 1071-1078. PB Seal (35mm, 31.07 g, 12h). Christ Pantokrator seated facing on ornate throne; barred IC XC across field / [+] MIXAH, AVTO KPAT, P,ωMO Δ(OY)KA,, Michael standing facing, wearing crown, divitision, and loros, holding labarum and globus cruciger. BLS I 95c-d var. (rev. legend). EF, light gray patina. Exceptional for issue, possibly the finest held privately.

Ex K. Collection; Sternberg XXIV (19 November 1990), lot 383.