CNG 88, Lot: 1733. Estimate $500. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Irene Comnena Ducaena Palaeologina (Violante di Monferrato). Empress-Consort, 1285-1317. PB Seal (30mm, 32.03 g, 12h). The Theotokos seated facing on thokos, holding Holy Infant; barred (MHP) ӨV across field / Irene standing facing, wearing crown, divitision, and loros, and holding scepter; in seven lines to left, +/ЄIRH/NI ЄV/CЄBЄ/(ςT)A[TH]/AVΓ(OY)/(ςT)A; in nine lines to right, +/KO/MNH/NH Δ(OY)/KЄNA/H ΠAΛ/AIOΛ[O]/ΓIN/A. BLS 125a-b var. (mater monogram). Near VF, gray-brown patina, some minor marks and roughness.