455, Lot: 450. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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John II Comnenus. 1118-1143. AV Hyperpyron (31mm, 4.13 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1118-1122. Christ Pantokrator seated facing on throne; barred IC – XC across upper field / Half-length figures of John and the Virgin Mary facing, holding patriarchal cross between them;
manus Dei to upper left. DOC 1a; SB 1938. Lightly toned, minor deposits, internal flan crack, wavy and slightly crimped flan, obverse slightly double struck. VF.
From the J.B. Collection, purchased from Glenn Woods, Autumn 2004.