| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29 | Auction date: 24 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 2828 Price realized: 35 CHF (Approx. 40 USD / 37 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Anonymous, 12th-14th centuries. Medallion (Bronze, 35 mm, 18.64 g). Facing bust of a bearded military saint (Saint Theodore?), holding transverse spear in his right hand and placing his left on hilt of sword; all within a dotted border. Rev. Blank. Faint scratches, otherwise, very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 25 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29 | Auction date: 24 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 2827 Price realized: 210 CHF (Approx. 238 USD / 220 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Anonymous, 12th-14th centuries. Medallion (Bronze, 40 mm, 40.65 g). Θ / MA/T-Θ/ЄO/C Facing bust of St. Matthew holding scroll in his right hand. Rev. Blank. A very well made and imposing late Byzantine medallion. Good very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Starting price: 75 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 5140 Price realized: 70 CHF (Approx. 80 USD / 74 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Michael VIII Palaeologus, with Andronicus II, 1261-1282. Trachy (Bronze, 28 mm, 3.35 g, 6 h), Thessalonica. Facing bust of St. Demetrius, in military attire, holding spear in his right hand and shield, decorated with star, in his left; around, traces of legend. Rev. Archangel Michael standing facing, placing his hands gently on the heads of Michael VIII, kneeling facing on the left and holding labarum in his right hand, and of Andronicus II, kneeling facing on the right and holding labarum in his left. SB 2322. Rare. Some areas of weakness and with a few scratches, otherwise, very fine. Starting price: 25 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29 | Auction date: 24 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 2806 Price realized: 1,500 CHF (Approx. 1,703 USD / 1,573 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Thathoul Pakourianos, protonobelissimos and archon of the archontes, circa 1100. Seal (Lead, 28 mm, 19.25 g, 1 h). ...Є/O-...C Saint Theodore, nimbate, standing facing, holding spear in his right hand and resting his left on shield. Rev. ...T૪ΛH AN,/[RH]ΛHCHMO S / [AP]XONTI TON / [A]PXONTON / TO ΠAKOV/PHANⲰ in seven lines. Zacos Sale II 129 (different boulleterion.) Cf. J.-C. Cheynet: Thathoul, archonte des archontes, in: REB 48 (1990), p. 233-242 and Zacos Sale II 128. An important seal of an Armenian governor known from the historic record. Minor roughness on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. Cheynet identifies the owner of this seal with the Armenian T'at'ul, who was governor of the town of Germanikeia (Marash) under Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118). Germanikeia held a key strategic location on the eastern border, controlling the route to Antioch. In fact, during the First Crusade, it was a resting place for the Normans commanded by Bohemond and Richard of Salerno, who recognized the authority of Thathoul as its governor. However, in 1104, another Crusader force, commanded by Bohemond and Joscelin of Courtenay, took possession of Germanikeia and deposed the Armenian governor, who retreated to Constantinople. The family name identifies Thathoul as a member of the illustrious family of the Pakourianoi, who were of Georgian origin. Another seal type of Thathoul exists that is slightly different (Zacos Sale II, 128, published in a dedicated article by Cheynet, and of which a second parallel sold in our Web Auction 20, 3178). This type is of a 'provincial' style, with very unconventional letter shapes, the legend stated in the nominative and it omits the family name. Starting price: 75 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 5278 Price realized: 170 CHF (Approx. 193 USD / 179 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: NIkephoros Botaneiates, anthypatos patrikios and vestes, last quarter 11th century. Seal (Lead, 29 mm, 40.23 g, 12 h). ...H[T]/P... Saint Demetrios standing facing, nimbate, holding spear in his right hand and resting his left on shield. Rev. +KЄ [R,Θ,] / NIKHΦⲰ / ANΘVΠ,T,ΠPI / RECTI TO R,/TANIA/TH in six lines. M. C. Bartusis: A Seal of Nikephoros Votaneiates, in: ANSMN 29 (1984), p. 135-141. An interesting and very heavy seal of the later emperor. Scrape on the obverse, otherwise, very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. The stellar career of the later emperor, Nikephoros Botaneiates, can be traced in the sigillographic record. This seal, belonging to the 1050s, attests the earliest known stage, with the relatively modest court rank of anthypatos patrikios. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 30 | Auction date: 17 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 127 Price realized: 200 CHF (Approx. 231 USD / 210 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ISLANDS OFF SICILY, Lipara. Circa 350-300 BC. (Bronze, 21 mm, 5.40 g, 4 h). Hephaistos seated to right on a low stool, holding hammer in his right hand and kantharos in his left. Rev. ΛΙΠΑΡΑΙ/ΩΝ Dolphin leaping to left over waves. Calciati 12. HGC 2, 1780. SNG Copenhagen 1095. SNG Morcom 869. Mottled red brown and green patina. Struck from a somewhat worn obverse die and with some scratches, otherwise, good fine. From the Dr. Paul Peter Urone Collection, ex Roma E-Sale 40, 28 October 2017, 50. Starting price: 200 CHF |  |
