CNG 99, Lot: 878. Estimate $300. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Michael VIII Palaeologus. 1261-1282. AV Hyperpyron (28mm, 4.11 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Half-length figure of the Virgin Mary, orans, within city walls with six towers; three pellets to left and right / Emperor kneeling slightly right, being presented by Archangel Michael to Christ enthroned slightly left, holding scroll. DOC 2-3; PCPC 4, sigla 32; Morgan Fitts p. 35 (this coin illustrated); SB 2242. VF, minor flan cracks, scratches and graffiti in margins.

From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection.