CNG 99, Lot: 874. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

John Comnenus-Ducas. As despot of Thessalonica, 1242-1244. Æ Trachy (17mm, 1.45 g, 6h). Crescent surrounded by alternating stars and quatrefoil rosettes / John standing facing, holding labarum and globus cruciger. P. Protonotarios, “More rare or unpublished coins of the empires of Nicaea and Thessalonica,” NumCirc LXXXII/2 (Feb. 1974), 14 = DOC (29.2) (this coin, illustrated on pl. XLIII); CLBC 14.19.3; SB 2215. Good VF, brown patina. Rare this nice.

From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection. Ex LHS 97 (10 May 2006), lot 186.

This coin is reportedly from a hoard of small module trachea found in eastern Thrace (see Protonotarios p. 54).