CNG 103, Lot: 951. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theodore I Comnenus-Lascaris. Emperor of Nicaea, 1208-1222. EL Aspron Trachy (32mm, 3.91 g, 6h). Nicaea mint. Struck 1208-1212(?). Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing; pellet-in-annulet on right breast / Theodore and St. Theodore standing facing, each holding sheathed sword and supporting between them a staff topped by eight-pointed star. Cf. DOC 2.2; SB 2064. Near EF, doubling on obverse.