| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61386 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 24218 Price realized: 700 USD (Approx. 657 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Alexius I Comnenus (AD 1081-1118). AV hyperpyron (25mm, 3.26 gm, 6h). NGC Choice VF 4/5 - 1/5, flattened, edge filing, scratches. Constantinople. Post-reform coinage (ca.192-1118). + KЄ RO-HΘЄI, Christ seated facing on backless throne, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left hand, IC-XC across fields, all in double-border / A-ΛE-ZIw-ΔEC-ΠO-TH-Tw-KO-MNH (ligate)-Nw, Alexius I standing facing, wearing crown, divitision and jeweled chlamys with six greatly exaggerated jewels, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left, hand of God at right near head; all in double-border. Sear 1913. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-alexius-i-comnenus-ad-1081-1118-av-hyperpyron-25mm-326-gm-6h-ngc-choice-vf-4-5-1-5-flattened-ed/a/61386-24218.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61386-04212024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61357 | Auction date: 14 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 22090 Price realized: 450 USD (Approx. 411 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Alexius I Comnenus (AD 1081-1118). AV hyperpyron (29mm, 4.32 gm, 6h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 2/5, straightened. Constantinople, post-reform coinage, AD 1092-1118. + KЄ RO-HΘЄI, Christ seated facing on backless throne, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left; barred IC-XC across upper fields / A/ΛE/ΞIw / ΔEC/ΠO/Τ-Tw/KO/MNH/Nw, Alexius I standing facing, wearing crown with pendilia, divitision and chlamys, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left, six pellets on sleeve; manus Dei crowning emperor from right. Sear 1912. From the Dynasty Collection, #114. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-alexius-i-comnenus-ad-1081-1118-av-hyperpyron-29mm-432-gm-6h-ngc-choice-vf-5-5-2-5-straightened/a/61357-22090.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61357-01142024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61357 | Auction date: 14 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 22091 Price realized: 725 USD (Approx. 662 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Alexius I Comnenus (AD 1081-1118). AV hyperpyron (29mm, 4.39 gm, 6h). NGC AU 5/5 - 2/5, graffito, scratches, wavy flan. Constantinople. Post-reform coinage (ca.192-1118). + KЄ RO-HΘЄI, Christ seated facing on backless throne, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left hand, IC-XC across fields, all in double-border / A-ΛE-ZIw-ΔEC-ΠO-TH-TΩ-KO-MNH (ligate)-Nw, Alexius I standing facing, wearing crown, divitision and jeweled chlamys with six greatly exaggerated jewels, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left, hand of God at right near head; all in double-border. Sear 1913. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-alexius-i-comnenus-ad-1081-1118-av-hyperpyron-29mm-439-gm-6h-ngc-au-5-5-2-5-graffito-scratches-/a/61357-22091.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61357-01142024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61357 | Auction date: 14 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 22092 Price realized: 500 USD (Approx. 457 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients John II Comnenus (AD 1118-1143). AV hyperpyron (32mm, 4.41 gm, 6h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 1/5, flattened, graffito. Constantinople, AD 1118-1122. IC-XC (barred), Christ seated facing on backless throne, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, cradling book of Gospels in left arm / + IΩ ΔΕCΠΟΤΗ, facing half-length figures of John II (on left), wearing loros and crown with pendilia, akakia in right hand, and the Virgin (on right), nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium, left hand raised in benediction, both holding long patriarchal cross between them with inner hand; manus Dei above John, ΘV (barred)-MHP (barred) in fields around Virgin. Sear 1938. From the Dynasty Collection, #104. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-john-ii-comnenus-ad-1118-1143-av-hyperpyron-32mm-441-gm-6h-ngc-choice-xf-5-5-1-5-flattened-graf/a/61357-22092.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61357-01142024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > NYINC Signature Sale 3114 | Auction date: 16 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 33303 Price realized: 1,200 USD (Approx. 1,102 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Manuel I Comnenus (AD 1143-1180). AV hyperpyron (30mm, 4.32 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 5/5. Constantinople, AD 1143-1152. +KERO-HΘEI, facing bust of youthful, beardless Christ, wearing nimbus cruciger with five pellets in each arm, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, scroll in left; barred IC-XC in fields, double border / MA/NΘV/HΛ/ΔЄC/ΠΟ/TH-Tw (ligate)/ΠOP/ΦV/ΓЄ/MNH (ligate)/Tw (ligate), Manuel I standing facing, wearing crown with pendilia, divitision and chlamys, labarum in right hand, globus surmounted by patriarchal cross in left; manus Dei in upper field to right, double border. Sear 1956. Clear and sharply defined details for the type with an antique, amber patina. Though Manuel is often criticized for excessively ambitious policies and rarely judged among the best Byzantine rulers, it is hard to argue with his diplomatic ability and the dominant position the empire enjoyed at the end of his 37-year reign. It is a remarkable fact that the two forces that came together to sack Constantinople in 1204, the Crusaders and Venice, were both completely under Manuel's thumb and in submission to Byzantium less than a quarter-century earlier (at the end of his reign). Manuel established supremacy over the Crusader States in the late 1150s, allying himself with the King of Jerusalem and, in a stunning display of submission, forcing the Prince of Antioch Raynald of Châtillon to appear before him in a sack with a rope tied around his neck and then walk on foot behind him while the emperor, on horseback, made his triumphal entrance in Antioch in 1159. Twelve years later, when Venice declared war on Byzantium but was decisively defeated by Manuel's navy, he used the opportunity to revoke all the trade privileges that his father and grandfather had granted the Venetians. Thus, at his death in 1180, Constantinople's position in the Mediterranean was the strongest it had been since the days of Basil II, and Manuel can be considered the last great Byzantine emperor. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-manuel-i-comnenus-ad-1143-1180-av-hyperpyron-30mm-432-gm-6h-ngc-choice-au-4-5-5-5/a/3114-33303.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3114-01162024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > NYINC Signature Sale 3114 | Auction date: 16 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 33288 Price realized: 1,100 USD (Approx. 1,010 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients OSTROGOTHS. Theoderic (AD 493-526). AV solidus (21mm, 4.45 gm, 6h). NGC Choice VF 4/5 - 2/5, wavy flan, edge filing, scratches. Pseudo-Imperial coinage, in the name of Anastasius I (AD 491-518), Rome, 1st officina. D N ANASTA-SIVS P F AVG, helmeted, cuirassed bust of Anastasius I facing, head slightly right, spear in right hand over shoulder, shield decorated with horseman motif in left / VICTORI-A AVGGG A, Victory standing facing, head left, grounded jeweled cross in right hand; star in right field, COMOB in exergue. Metlich 8. MEC 112. cf. Sear 3 (Constantinople) for official Byzantine Empire issue. Bold and well-articulated dies with autumnal patina. Ex Cayon Subastas, Auction (30 November 2013), lot 501 https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/migration-period/ancients-ostrogoths-theoderic-ad-493-526-av-solidus-21mm-445-gm-6h-ngc-choice-vf-4-5-2-5-wavy-flan-edge/a/3114-33288.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3114-01162024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
