Sale: Triton X, Lot: 852. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nicephorus I. 802-811. AV Solidus (4.44 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 802-803. n ICI FOROS bASILE’, crowned facing bust, wearing chlamys, holding cross potent in right hand, akakia in left / IhSuS XRIS TuS nICA, cross potent on three steps; archaic theta. DOC III 1a; SB 1603. Good VF, light scrape on obverse, small edge bump.

From the Mark Poncin Collection.