CNG 108, Lot: 894. Estimate $150. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BULGARIA, Second Empire. Ivanko Terter(?). Despotes in Karvuna, 1386-1387. Æ Trachy (20mm, 1.31 g, 6h). Uncertain mint. +ДЄС/ПО in two lines; T to lower left, (OY) to lower right, four pellets in central field / Iω above T; four pellets to either side. Raduchev & Zhekov 1.16.1-2 (R9); Youroukova & Penchev 142; D&D 12.1.1. VF, brown patina. Very rare.

From the Iconodule Collection.

Traditionally attributed to the Despot of Karvuna Dobrotitsa. See Dochev pp. 274-81 for the tentative reattribution of this type to his son Ivanko Terter, who briefly succeeding Dobrotitsa.