271, Lot: 145. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nicephorus III Botaniates. 1078-1081. EL Tetarteron Nomisma (19mm, 4.02 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; behind, cross within nimbus crown; barred IC XC across field / + NIKHF ΔЄCΠ Tω BOTANIATI, Nicephorus standing facing on dais, wearing crown with pendilia, slight beard, and loros, and holding globus cruciger and labarum. DOC 5a; SB 1884A; Berk 337 (this coin illustrated). VF, flan crack. Rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 559.