Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2194. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theodore I, Comnenus-Lascaris. Emperor of Nicaea, 1208-1222. EL Trachy (3.67 g, 66h). Magnesia mint. Christ enthroned facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels / Theodore, wearing loros and short beard, and holding sheathed sword set on ground, and St. Theodore, wearing military outfit and holding sheathed sword set on ground, standing facing, holding staff surmounted by eight-rayed star between them. Cf. DOC IV 2.1; SB 2064. Good VF, toned.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.