CNG 99, Lot: 825. Estimate $300. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Artavasdus. Imperial Strator and Droungarios, 8th-9th centuries. PB Seal (29mm, 13.88 g, 12h). Cruciform invocative monogram; Tω/Δ(OV)-Cω/Λω in quarters / +APTAV/ACΔω [B’ CT]/PATOR’ S ΔP/(OV)ΓΓVPI[ ... ] in four lines. Possibly unpublished. VF, pierced, cut for use as a pendant. Rare and interesting.

From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 273 (8 February 2012), lot 573.