Byzantine Silver & Bronze
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Lot 3416 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Byzantine Silver & Bronze
Estimate $150
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SOLD $100
MICHAEL II, (A.D. 820-829), folles, Syracuse, Sicily mint, obv. Michael and Theopolus busts facing, rev. M over Theta, (S.1652, DOC 21); Leo VI and Alexander, (A.D. 886-912), folles, Constantinople mint, obv. Leo & Alexander figures facing, rev. four lined legend, (S.1730, DOC 6); Constantine VII and Zoe, (914-919), folles, Constantinople mint, obv. Constantine & Zoe figures facing, rev. five lined legend, another Constantine VII and Romanus II (945-959), rev. four lined legend, (S.1758, 1762, DOC 22, 27); Romanus I, (1068-1071), follis of Constantinople mint, obv. Christ facing, rev. cross in angles C-R; P-D. (S.1866, DOC 8); Alexius I, (1081-1118), tetarteron, Thessalonica mint, rev. jewelled cross with globes at ends, letters C-Phi/ AL-Delta, (S.1931) (2); Alexius III Comnenus, (A.D. 1195-1203), Billon aspron trachy, Constantinople mint, obv. bust of Christ facing, rev. Alexius and St Constantine, (S.2012, H. Pl.22, 8-11). Fine - very fine. (8)
Ex Australian Coin Auctions Sale 255 (Sept. 1994, lots 2189, 2193, 2195, 2198, 2199, 2205) with their packets.
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