Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 1115. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THEODOSIUS III of Adramytium. 715-717 AD. AR Hexagram (3.34 gm). Constantinople mint. d N thEOdO [SIUS MUL A'], facing bust with short beard, wearing crown and loros, holding patriarchal globus and akakia / VICTORI AVSU, cross potent on three steps; D/CONOB. DOC II 2 note (referring to Tolstoi 13); MIB III 12; SB 1491. Toned VF, several scuffs in reverse field. Struck from solidus dies. Extremely rare. ($1500)

From the Christopher Connell Collection. Ex William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby's, 5-6 December 1990), lot 562; Leu 15 (4-5 May 1976), lot 476.