Watch List notes:

Nicephorus. Ostiarios and protosynkellos, circa 11th century. PB Seal (27mm, 7.92 g, 12h). Facing bust of St. Nicholas, wearing pastoral vestments, raising right hand in benediction, holding Gospels in left; O/ N/I/K/O-Λ/A/O/C across field / + KЄ ROHΘ,/ Tω Cω ΔOVΛ,/ NIKHΦOPO/ OCTIAP, KAI/ A'KVNHΓ in five lines; – + – above and below. Unpublished in the standard references. EF, brown patina, crack along channel on obverse.


From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection. Ex Triton V (15 January 2002), lot 2303.