CNG 94, Lot: 1544. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theodore II Ducas-Lascaris. Emperor of Nicaea, 1254-1258. AV Hyperpyron (22mm, 3.96 g, 6h). Magnesia mint. Dated RY 4 (AD 1257/8). Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing, raising hand in benediction; A A (date) flanking / Theodore standing facing, holding labarum, being crowned by the Theotokos standing facing, head slightly left. DOC 4a; LBC 298-300 var. (date); SB 2136. VF, faces of Theodore and the Theotokos defaced by numerous small peck marks.

From the Iconodule Collection.