CNG 108, Lot: 873. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BULGARIA, Second Empire. Ivan Aleksandar. 1331–1371. Æ Trachy (18mm, 0.83 g, 6h). Shumen mint. Voided cross with central line; IC–XC/N–K in quarters / Ivan Aleksandar standing facing, holding cross (or crude globus cruciger?) in right hand and cross-tipped scepter in left. Cf. Raduchev & Zhekov 1.13.31-33; cf. Youroukova & Penchev 95; cf. D&D 9.2.6; Dochev 3920-30. Good VF, brown patina. Rare variety, normally found with tsar holding scepter in right hand, cross/globus cruciger in left.

From the Iconodule Collection.