Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 1743. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JOHN VI. 1353-1354. AR Basilikon (0.85 gm). Constantinople mint. Christ enthroned facing; sigla: B/K N (reverted) at sides / KTKZN, GOD DMHTR, John and St. Demetrius standing facing. Cf. DOC V 1205 (unlisted sigla); Bendall 301; SB 2540. Good VF. Very rare. ($2000)

John V and John VI both employed Turkish mercenaries in their civil war, which led to the first settlement of Ottoman forces in Greece. After John VI's abdication in 1354, he spent almost thirty years as a monk, writing numerous historical and religious tracts