379, Lot: 418. Estimate $500. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

John III Ducas (Vatatzes). Emperor of Nicaea, 1222-1254. AR Trachy (28mm, 2.47 g, 6h). Magnesia mint. Facing bust of Christ Emmanuel / John and St. Theodore standing facing, each holding sword and supporting patriarchal cross between them. DOC (23a) (same rev. die); SB 2077. VF, toned, porosity. Very rare, one of two on CoinArchives.

From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection. Ex Moneta Imperii Romani Byzantini Collection (Stack’s, 12 January 2009), lot 3305; Numismatic Fine Arts Publication 36 (Spring 1989), no. 128.