271, Lot: 135. Estimate $7500. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Leo VI the Wise. 886-912. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.30 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 886-908. + mARIA +, half-length facing bust of the Theotokos, orans, wearing pallium and colobium; barred (MHR) ӨЧ across field / LЄOИ ЄИ X·ω ЬASILЄЧS ROmωИ, crowned facing bust of Leo, wearing long beard and chlamys with tablion, and holding globus surmounted by patriarchal cross. DOC 1a; Füeg 1; SB 1723; Berk 270 (this coin illustrated). Near VF. Extremely rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 475.