Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29Auction date: 24 February 2024
Lot number: 2652

Price realized: 80 CHF   (Approx. 91 USD / 84 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Anonymous Folles, time of Michael IV, circa 1034-1041. Follis (Bronze, 30 mm, 7.16 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. Nimbate and draped three-quarter length figure of Christ Antiphonetes standing facing; to left and right, IC - XC. Rev. IC / XC / NI/KA within the angles of a large jewelled cross. SB 1825. Double struck and with light cleaning scratches, otherwise, very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.

Starting price: 25 CHF

Match 1:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 371

Price realized: 70 CHF   (Approx. 80 USD / 74 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Anonymous Folles, time of Romanus IV, circa 1068-1071. Follis (Bronze, 26 mm, 9.69 g, 5 h), Constantinopolis. Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left; in fields, IC - XC. Rev. Nimbate bust of the Virgin Mary facing, orans, wearing pallium and maphorium; in fields MHP - ΘV. DOC Class G. SB 1867. Some deposits, otherwise, very fine.


From the James Knox Collection of Biblical related coins, privately acquired from Byzantium Coins on 14 August 2013.

Starting price: 25 CHF

Match 2:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 359

Price realized: 60 CHF   (Approx. 68 USD / 63 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Anonymous Folles, time of Romanus III, circa 1028-1034. Follis (Bronze, 29 mm, 11.24 g, 6 h), Class B, Constantinopolis. [+ЄMMANOVHΛ] Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left; in fields, IC - XC. Rev. IS - XS / bAS-ILЄ / bAS-ILЄ Cross set on three steps. DOC Class B. SB 1823. Somewhat double struck, otherwise, very fine.


From the James Knox Collection of Biblical related coins, privately acquired from Ancient Imports on 1 December 2012.

Starting price: 25 CHF

Match 3:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 5088

Price realized: 40 CHF   (Approx. 45 USD / 42 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Anonymous Folles, time of Romanus III, circa 1028-1034. Follis (Bronze, 32 mm, 9.44 g, 6 h), Class B, Constantinopolis. +ЄMMANOVHΛ Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left; in fields, IC - XC. Rev. IS - XS / bAS-ILЄ / bAS-ILЄ Cross set on three steps. DOC Class B. SB 1823. Traces of overstriking and with light deposits, otherwise, good very fine.


From the collection of lic. iur. Jürg Netzer, Switzerland, and from the collection of Dr. Max Blaschegg (1930-2021, with collector's ticket), Leu Web Auction 22, 20-21 August 2022, 325 and previously privately acquired from Numisantique at the Zurich coin fair on 28 October 2017.

Starting price: 25 CHF

Match 4:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 5089

Price realized: 30 CHF   (Approx. 34 USD / 32 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Anonymous Folles, time of Romanus III, circa 1028-1034. Follis (Bronze, 31 mm, 14.58 g, 6 h), Class B, Constantinopolis. +ЄMMANOVHΛ Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left; in fields, IC - XC. Rev. IS - XS / bAS-ILЄ / bAS-ILЄ Cross set on three steps. DOC Class B. SB 1823. The reverse struck somewhat off center, otherwise, very fine.


Ex Leu Web Auction 18, 19-21 December 2021, 3870, and previously from a European collection, formed before 2005.

Starting price: 25 CHF

Match 5:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29Auction date: 24 February 2024
Lot number: 2651

Price realized: 45 CHF   (Approx. 51 USD / 47 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Anonymous Folles, time of Romanus III, circa 1028-1034. Follis (Bronze, 19 mm, 1.45 g, 8 h), a contemporary imitation of a class B anonymous follis from Constantinopolis. Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. Cross set on steps with blundered Greek legend to left and right. Cf. SB 1823 (for prototype). Minor corrosion and with light scratches, otherwise, very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.

Starting price: 25 CHF