Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1568. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Halberstadt. Gero von Schermbrke, Bishop. > 1160-1177. AR Bracteate Pfennig (0.91 gm). Nimbate bust of St. Stephan, orans and surrounded by stones, above a city gate, within the gate a bust of a bishop with crozier and Gospels; pellets in squares around. Bonhoff 465; Löbbecke 41; Reichmann -. Good VF, fine old collection toning. Old inventory number and traces of red wax on reverse. ($300)

From the Robert Schonwalter Collection.