271, Lot: 131. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theophilus. 829-842. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.49 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 829-830. * ӨЄOFI LOS ЬASILЄ’, crowned facing bust, wearing slight beard and loros, and holding cruciform scepter and globus cruciger / CVRIЄ ЬOHӨH τO SO ∂OVLO * Є, patriarchal cross set upon three steps. DOC 1a.2 (same obv. die); Füeg 1.A.1; SB 1655; Berk 248 (this coin illustrated). EF, a very slight spot of striking weakness near the center.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 442.