Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1459. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EMPIRE of NICAEA. Theodore I, Comnenus-Lascaris. 1208-1222. Billon Trachy (4.66 gm, 6h). Nicaea mint. MHP QV across field, the Virgin, nimbate, enthroned facing, holding the nimbate head of the infant Christ / QEODWPOC O QEODWPOC, standing facing figures of Theodore, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum, and St. Theodore, in military uniform, both holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC IV, 5a.1; SB 2061. Choice EF, black patina. Much superior to the DOC specimens. ($200)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection.