CNG 94, Lot: 1519. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

John II Comnenus. 1118-1143. AV Hyperpyron (30mm, 4.14 g, 6h). First coinage. Thessalonica mint. Struck 1118-circa 1122. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing, raising hand in benediction / Half-length figures of John, being crowned by manus Dei to right, and the Theotokos, facing, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC 4; SB 1947. EF, minor marks in margins. Well struck reverse.

From the Iconodule Collection.