280, Lot: 385. Estimate $150. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nicephorus III Botaniates, with Maria. 1078-1081. AR Miliaresion (20mm, 1.53 g, 12h). Constantinople mint. Cross crosslet set on pellet on four steps; X at center, • above crescent on shaft; to left and right, crowned facing busts of Nicephorus, wearing jeweled chlamys, and Maria, wearing loros / NIKHΦP,/ KAI MARIA/ ΠICTOI RA/CILΛЄIC Pω/MAIωN in five lines. DOC 6; SB 1886. Fine, lightly toned. Rare.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 1121. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 67 (22 September 2004), lot 1898.