| Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio) > January 2024 NYINC Auction | Auction date: 12 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 55402 Price realized: 60 USD (Approx. 55 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: MANUEL I, 1143-1180. EL Aspron Trachy (3.96 gms), Constantinople Mint, ca. 1143-1152. VERY FINE. S-1957. Obverse: Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator holding scroll in right hand; Reverse: Facing figures of Manuel, wearing loros, holding labarum and akakia, and the Theotokos, crowning Manuel. Estimate: $100 - $200 |  |
Match 1:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 561 | Auction date: 1 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 810 Price realized: 275 USD (Approx. 257 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. AV Hyperpyron (30.5mm, 4.06 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1143-circa 1152. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator holding scroll; nimbus with five pellets in each double-lined arm / Manuel standing facing, wearing crown and jeweled chlamys, holding labarum and patriarchal globus cruciger; manus Dei above; five jewels on collar, six in chlamys end. DOC 1b; SB 1956. Toned, die rust, flattened, graffiti. VF. Estimate: 300 USD |  |
Match 2:
| Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio) > January 2024 NYINC Auction | Auction date: 12 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 55400 Price realized: 220 USD (Approx. 201 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: JOHN II, 1118-1143. AV Hyperpyron (4.28 gms), Constantinople Mint, ca. 1122-1137. VERY FINE. Wavy Flan, Graffiti S-1939. Obverse: Christ Pantokrator seated facing on throne; Reverse: John standing facing, wearing loros and holding labarum and globus akakia, being crowned by the Theotokos, nimbate, to right. Estimate: $200 - $300 |  |
Match 3:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 555 | Auction date: 7 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 703 Price realized: 225 USD (Approx. 210 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Isaac Comnenus. Usurper in Cyprus, 1185-1191. EL Trachy (24.5mm, 1.71 g, 6h). Main mint (Nicosia?) (?). Struck circa 1187-circa 1191. [I] C/ O/ [M]M/ A - H[A], facing bust of Christ Emmanuel, holding scroll / [...], Isaac standing facing, holding cruciform scepter and akakia; [manus Dei to upper right]. Cf. DOC 3 (BI Trachy; for similar type); cf. SB 1992 (same). Toned with some luster, tiny edge splits and delaminations at edge, graffito, hairline scratches. VF. Purchased at the NYINC, January 2003. A very curious and perplexing coin. This coin most closely resembles a billon issue of Isaac Comnenus of Cyprus (DOC 3) but is here found in a low gold purity electrum. Issac did indeed strike electrum issues at the main mint, but none are recorded of this type. Additionally, Isaac's coinage tends to feature larger flans and heavier weights. Some BI Trachea are known closer to this coin's diameter but with larger dies. This coin features a small flan and was additionally struck from an accompanying small die. The flan does appear ancient with small delamination flaws around the edge. Additionally, the coin is struck at the usual 6h die axis and features the doubling expected on a Byzantine issue. Turning to the coin's iconography may help elucidate this unusual issue. One stylistic characteristic of note on Isaac Comnenus of Cyprus' issues concerns the pendilia of the stemma (crown). On many of the dies of this ruler's issues, one finds a loop midway on both pendilia hanging from the stemma. This feature appears on many dies of the DOC 3 BI Trachy and is also found on this issue. Additionally, the folds of the chlamys are appropriate to other Isaac dies. Finally, another convincing feature is found in the amount of the obverse legend visible that closely correlates to the DOC 3 issue. However, there are some major question marks concerning this coin, notably: the uncharacteristically small die and flan, the possibility of this being an off-strike (though this is perhaps unlikely due to it being struck from a small die that was seemingly intended for a flan such as is found here), the lack of a visible manus Dei on the reverse (which could be attributed to usual weakness but is nonetheless worth noting), and the lack of any additional specimen of this type. However, with these concerns specified, this remains a very interesting issue that may well represent a new find for the rare coinage of the usurper Isaac Comnenus of Cyprus. Estimate: 300 USD |  |
Match 4:
| Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd > Auction 60 | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 293 Price realized: 550 USD (Approx. 504 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Theodore I Comnenus-Lascaris. Electrum Aspron Trachy (3.09 g), 1205/8-1221 Magnesia, ca. 1208-1212. IC - XC, Christ, nimbate, seated facing on square-backed throne, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels. Reverse: ΘEΟΔωPOC ΔECΠOT ΘEΟΔωΡΟC, St. Theodore, nimbate and in military attire on the right, and Theodore I, bearded and on the left, standing facing, each holding sheathed sword and supporting between them staff surmounted by eight-pointed star with pellet-in-circle. DOC 2; SB 2064. Die shift on the obverse. Good Very Fine. Estimate: 400 USD |  |
Match 5:
| Heritage Auctions Europe / MPO Auctions > Auction 80 | Auction date: 13 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 4026 Price realized: 1,100 EUR (Approx. 1,176 USD) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Byzantine Coinage - Justinian II (first reign, 685-695) - AV Solidus (Constantinople AD 692-695, 4.39g) - Draped bust of Christ facing, cross behind, raising right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels / Justinianus II, crowned, bearded and wearing loros, standing facing, holding cross potent on three steps with his right hand and akakia in his left (CNOP in ex.) (S. 1248 / DOC 7) - the usual areas of weakness, otherwise XF, virtually as struck with fresh dies (ex Leu web auction 16, 3945) Starting price: 500 EUR |  |
