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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1417. Estimate $2000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005. 
Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THEOPHILUS. 829-842 AD. AV Solidus (4.03 gm, 6h). Naples mint. Struck 829-830 AD. -QEOFI LOS bASILE, facing bust, wearing crown and loros, holding globus cruciger and cruciform sceptre / CVRIE bOHQH TO SO dOVLO E, patriarchal cross on three steps; stars flanking. Cf. DOC III 31g/31f (obv./rev.); Ricotti-Prina -; SB 1684. Good VF for type. Very rare. ($2000)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Dr. Anton C.R Dreesmann Collection, part II (Spink, 13 July 2000), lot 627; purchased from J. Schulman, September 1973.