369, Lot: 567. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

John II Comnenus. 1118-1143. AV Hyperpyron (30mm, 4.24 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1118-1122. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing / Half-length figures of John II and the Virgin Mary facing, holding patriarchal cross between them; above John, manus Dei emerging from clouds. DOC 1a; SB 1938. VF, flan a little wavy.

From the collection of David Sellar MVO, former Lord Lyon King of Arms.