304, Lot: 490. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Andronicus II Palaeologus, with Michael IX. 1282-1328. AV Hyperpyron Nomisma (20mm, 3.14 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1303-1320. Half-length figure of the the Theotokos (Virgin Mary), orans, within city walls with four towers; A to left, B (retrograde) to right / Christ standing facing, crowning Andronicus and Michael kneeling to either side. DOC 471 (same rev. die); LPC p. 62, 1; PCPC –, sigla 153; SB 2396. VF.

From the Kelly J. Krizan, M.D. Collection.