349, Lot: 612. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

John Comnenus-Ducas. As emperor of Thessalonica, 1237-1242. BI Trachy (23mm, 1.60 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Four-winged angel standing facing, with arms outstretched; Λ/Λ/K/Є/Λ/O/I to left, X/V/PI/(OV)I (P retrograde) / John, holding akakia, and St. Michael, holding sword, standing facing, supporting sword between them; IωANNIC ΔЄC to left, O[AΓI M...?] to right. DOC –; CLBC 14.14.3 (R5); D. M. Metcalf, “The Peter and Paul Hoard: Bulgarian and Latin imitative trachea in the time of Ivan Asen II,” NumChron (1973), 1106, pl. 11, 117 = Lianta 405 (but misdescribed and with incorrect citations); SB –. VF, green-brown patina. Extremely rare.