| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61386 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 24232 Price realized: 100 USD (Approx. 94 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus (AD 1195-1203). EL aspron trachy (29mm, 4.30 gm, 6h). NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 3/5, edge chips. Constantinople, AD 1197-1203. IC-XC (barred), full length figure of Christ seated facing on backless throne, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels on lap / AΛЄZIΩΩ Δ-ЄCΠ KOMNHNΩ, Alexius III (on left) and St. Constantine (on right) standing facing, each wearing crown, divitision and loros, cruciform scepter on outer arm, both holding labarum between them. Sear 2010. Ex Freeman & Sear, Mail Bid Sale 8 (5 February 2003), lot 548. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-alexius-iii-angelus-comnenus-ad-1195-1203-el-aspron-trachy-29mm-430-gm-6h-ngc-choice-xf-4-5-3-5-/a/61386-24232.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: 22100 Price realized: 800 USD (Approx. 731 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus (AD 1195-1203). BI aspron trachy (26mm, 2.83 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 4/5. Constantinople. +KЄ RO-HΘЄI, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with five pellets in each arm, pallium, and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left arm; IC-XC (barred) across fields / AΛЄΣ-IW, Alexius III (on left), and nimbate St. Constantine (on right), both standing facing, wearing crown, divitision, and loros, cruciform scepter in outer hand, jointly holding globus cruciger with inner hands. Sear 2012. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-alexius-iii-angelus-comnenus-ad-1195-1203-bi-aspron-trachy-26mm-283-gm-6h-ngc-choice-au-4-5-4-5/a/61357-22100.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: 22098 Price realized: 280 USD (Approx. 256 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Manuel I Comnenus (AD 1143-1180). EL aspron trachy (32mm, 4.08 gm, 6h). NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 4/5, slight bend. Constantinople. IC-XC (barred), Christ seated facing on backless throne, wearing nimbus cruciger with single pellet in each arm, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, Gospels in left hand; double border / MANVHΛ-ΔECΠO, The Virgin (on right), nimbate, standing facing, wearing pallium and maphorium, crowning with right hand emperor (on left), standing facing, wearing divitision and loros, five beads on collar, three beads on chest, four beads on stola, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left; M between, on right ΘV by Virgin, all in double border. Sear 1961. Ex Sincona, Auction 37 (16 May 2017), lot 490. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-manuel-i-comnenus-ad-1143-1180-el-aspron-trachy-32mm-408-gm-6h-ngc-choice-xf-4-5-4-5-slight-bend/a/61357-22098.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 61386 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 24221 Price realized: 360 USD (Approx. 338 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients John II Comnenus (AD 1118-1143). EL aspron trachy (33mm, 4.20 gm, 6h). NGC AU 4/5 - 3/5, edge crimps. Constantinople. IC-XC (barred), Christ seated facing on backless throne with single pellet on each arm, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium, and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left arm; double border / Iw/ΔEC/ΠO/TH-Θ/ΓE/Ω/ΓI, John II (on left), standing facing, wearing crown with pendilia, divitision, and chlamys, and St. George (on right), standing facing, nimbate, wearing military dress, sword in left hand, jointly holding between them long patriarchal cross set on three steps; double border. Sear 1942. Ex Freeman & Sear, Mail Bid Sale 8 (5 February 2003), lot 538. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-john-ii-comnenus-ad-1118-1143-el-aspron-trachy-33mm-420-gm-6h-ngc-au-4-5-3-5-edge-crimps/a/61386-24221.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 61386 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 24224 Price realized: 280 USD (Approx. 263 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Manuel I Comnenus (AD 1143-1180). EL aspron trachy (32mm, 4.19 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 2/5, graffito, edge crimps. Constantinople, AD 1160-1164. IC-XC (barred), Christ standing facing on dais, bearded, wearing nimbus cruciger with five pellets in limbs, pallium, and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left; eight-pointed star to either side / M-AN-ΩHΛ-O / ΘЄ/Ο/Δ/Ω/Ρ/OC, Manuel I, bearded (on left) and St. Theodore, bearded and nimbate (on right) both standing facing, jointly holding patriarchal cross with large globus on base between them, Manuel I wearing crown, divitision and loros, right hand on pommel of sheathed sword on hip, St. Theodore wearing military attire with left hand on pommel of sheathed sword at hip. Sear 1959. From the Eardley and Ethel Madsen Collection. Struck during a period of tension between the Byzantine Empire and the Western European Crusader forces, this coin is symbolic of Manuel I's desire to preserve the power and independence of the Byzantine realm from the "Latins," who the Byzantines always mistrusted and disliked. The patriarchal cross on the reverse of the coin, a major symbol of Orthodox Christianity, would have signaled Manuel's desire to protect his people, empire, and faith from the hostile Roman Catholic Crusaders, as would the depiction of St. Theodore, a popular saint in the Byzantine cultural sphere. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-manuel-i-comnenus-ad-1143-1180-el-aspron-trachy-32mm-419-gm-6h-ngc-choice-au-4-5-2-5-graffito-e/a/61386-24224.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: 22095 Price realized: 320 USD (Approx. 292 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Manuel I Comnenus (AD 1143-1180). EL aspron trachy (34mm, 4.55 gm, 6h). NGC AU 5/5 - 4/5, edge crimps, brushed. Constantinople, AD 1152-1157. IC-XC (barred), Christ seated facing on backless throne, bearded, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, cradling book of Gospels on lap / MANΩHΛ-ΔECΠOTH, Manuel I (on left), bearded, standing facing, wearing crown with pendilia, divitision and loros, star patterns of beads on belt, akakia in right hand, and the Virgin (on right) nimbate, standing facing, wearing pallium and maphorium, holding patriarchal cross between them; M-Θ by head of Virgin. Sear 1958. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-manuel-i-comnenus-ad-1143-1180-el-aspron-trachy-34mm-455-gm-6h-ngc-au-5-5-4-5-edge-crimps-brush/a/61357-22095.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61357-01142024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
