| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61386 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 24244 Price realized: 850 USD (Approx. 798 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients John VIII Palaeologus (AD 1421/5-1448). AR stavraton (23mm, 7.05 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 3/5. Constantinople. Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, book of Gospels in left hand; IC-XC across fields, pellets within double border around / + IΩANHC ΔECΠOTIC O ΠΑΛЄΟΛΟΓOC / ΘV XAPITI AVTOKPATOP, nimbate bust of John VIII facing, crowned and wearing loros; pellet in left and right fields. Sear 2564 (AR half-hyperpyron). Ex Economopoulos Numismatics, private sale with old dealer's tag included. The long reign of the penultimate Byzantine emperor was spent desperately pleading with Western leaders to help Byzantium from the Turkish threat. John sent messengers to the Council of Florence in 1439 in hopes of reuniting the Orthodox Church with Rome, but this move towards conciliation was adamantly rejected by the population, who refused to forgive the Latins for the Sack of Constantinople in 1204. The major western powers of England, France, Castille, and the Holy Roman Empire refused to act, leaving Constantinople to the mercy of the Ottomans. The only material aid came from Europe's eastern nations - in 1444, the armies of Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Bohemia, and Croatia marched towards Constantinople in the last crusade of the Middle Ages. The two armies met at Varna in Bulgaria on November 10; it was a decisive victory for the Turks, who inflicted heavy losses on the Europeans and killed the brave 20-year old king of Poland Wladyslaw III, who died leading his men in a charge directly towards the Sultan. With the defeat of the final crusade at Varna, Byzantium's fate was all but sealed. John VIII died four years later in 1448, and the capital finally fell in 1453. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-john-viii-palaeologus-ad-1421-5-1448-ar-stavraton-23mm-705-gm-6h-ngc-choice-au-4-5-3-5/a/61386-24244.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61386-04212024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
Match 1:
| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61386 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 24245 Price realized: 460 USD (Approx. 432 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients John VIII Palaeologus (AD 1421/5-1448). AR stavraton (25mm, 1h). NGC Choice VF. Constantinople. Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, book of Gospels in left hand; IC-XC across fields, pellets within double border around / + IΩANHC ΔECΠOTIC O ΠΑΛЄΟΛΟΓOC / ΘV XAPITI AVTOKPATOP, nimbate bust of John VIII facing, crowned and wearing loros; pellet in left and right fields. Sear 2564 (AR half-hyperpyron). Ex Pegasi Numismatics, private sale with old dealer's tag included. The long reign of the penultimate Byzantine emperor was spent desperately pleading with Western leaders to help Byzantium from the Turkish threat. John sent messengers to the Council of Florence in 1439 in hopes of reuniting the Orthodox Church with Rome, but this move towards conciliation was adamantly rejected by the population, who refused to forgive the Latins for the Sack of Constantinople in 1204. The major western powers of England, France, Castille, and the Holy Roman Empire refused to act, leaving Constantinople to the mercy of the Ottomans. The only material aid came from Europe's eastern nations - in 1444, the armies of Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Bohemia, and Croatia marched towards Constantinople in the last crusade of the Middle Ages. The two armies met at Varna in Bulgaria on November 10; it was a decisive victory for the Turks, who inflicted heavy losses on the Europeans and killed the brave 20-year old king of Poland Wladyslaw III, who died leading his men in a charge directly towards the Sultan. With the defeat of the final crusade at Varna, Byzantium's fate was all but sealed. John VIII died four years later in 1448, and the capital finally fell in 1453. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-john-viii-palaeologus-ad-1421-5-1448-ar-stavraton-25mm-1h-ngc-choice-vf/a/61386-24245.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: 22101 Price realized: 1,600 USD (Approx. 1,462 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Andronicus II Palaeologus (AD 1282-1328). AV/EL hyperpyron (24mm, 3.99 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 3/5. Constantinople. Nimbate, draped bust of the Virgin, orans, within city walls with six groups of towers; B-star sigla so either side / ANΔPO/NIKOC EN / XW ΔECΠO/THC O Π/AΛEOΓ, Andronicus II kneeling right at the feet of nimbate Christ, who stands facing, laying right hand on Andronicus' head, book of Gospels in left; star in field below Andronicus, IC / XC (barred) in right field. Sear 2326. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-andronicus-ii-palaeologus-ad-1282-1328-av-el-hyperpyron-24mm-399-gm-6h-ngc-choice-au-4-5-3-5/a/61357-22101.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: 24178 Price realized: 925 USD (Approx. 868 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Romanus III Argyrus (AD 1028-1034). AV histamenon nomisma (23mm, 4.40 gm, 6h). NGC AU 5/5 - 3/5. Constantinople. +IhS XIS RЄX-RЄϚNANTInm, Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left; double border / ΘCЄ bOHΘ'-RwmAhw, standing facing figures of Romanus III (on left), bearded, wearing crown with pendilia, saccos and loros, six pellets on sleeve, globus cruciger in left hand, and the Virgin (on right), nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium, crowning emperor with right hand; decorative element over MΘ in central field between their heads, double border. Sear 1819. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-romanus-iii-argyrus-ad-1028-1034-av-histamenon-nomisma-23mm-440-gm-6h-ngc-au-5-5-3-5/a/61386-24178.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 61386 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 24236 Price realized: 1,500 USD (Approx. 1,408 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Michael VIII Palaeologus (AD 1261-1282). AV/EL hyperpyron (23mm, 4.13 gm, 6h). NGC MS 4/5-5/5. Philadelphia (?). Half-length figure of the Virgin Mary, orans, within city wall of six towers; sigla: Π | Є; MP-ΘV in fields / XMΛITI-M, Michael facing, kneeling slightly right and being presented by archangel Michael to Christ seated facing to left and holding Gospel book, sigla: Π/Π/Є; IC-XC in fields. Sear 2243 (Constantinople). PCPC 5, sigla 80. Ex Heritage Auctions, Auction 231731 (3 August 2017), lot 61116; Heritage Auctions, Auction 3053 (17 January 2017), lot 35390; Heritage Auctions, Auction 3045 (12 January 2016), lot 32475. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-michael-viii-palaeologus-ad-1261-1282-av-el-hyperpyron-23mm-413-gm-6h-ngc-ms-4-5-5-5/a/61386-24236.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61386-04212024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
