Byzantine Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 5544 Session 17 (11.30am Friday) Byzantine Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $150
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SOLD $140
JOHN VIII PALAEOLOGUS, (1423-1448), silver half stavraton (quarter hyperpyron), Constantinople mint, (3.33 grams), obv. IC-XC Nimbate bust of Christ, book of Gospels in left hand, right hand raised in benediction, all inside dotted and lined circle, surrounded by margin with pellets, inside solid line circle, rev. traces of IWANHC **D*EC**P*OTIC O **PALEOLOG*OC / **Q*V XAPITI AVTOKPATOP in two circles inside which bust of John facing, bearded, nimbate, crown with pendila, a pellet in the left and right fields, (S,2565, LPC 2 [p.172]). Short on flan, otherwise very fine.
Ex Glen W. Woods, USA, with his ticket.
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