357, Lot: 505. Estimate $200. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

John III Ducas (Vatatzes). Emperor of Nicaea, 1222-1254. AV Hyperpyron (20mm, 2.47 g, 6h). Magnesia mint. Struck circa 1232-1254. Christ Pantokrator seated facing on throne / John standing facing, holding labarum and akakia, and being crowned by the Theotokos standing facing to right. DOC 5; SB 2073. VF, some doubling on the obverse, heavily clipped.

Normally a cup-shaped (scyphate) coin, this piece has had so much clipping that the remaining flan is flat, reminiscent of the earlier solidi.