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Auction 106  9-10 May 2018
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Lot 1130

Estimate: 2500 CHF
Price realized: 3500 CHF
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Teophilus I, 829 – 842. Debased solidus, Naples (?) circa 829-831, EL 4.99 g. *ΘEOFI – LOS bASILE Bust facing, with short beard, wearing crown and loros and holding globus cruciger and cruciform sceptre. Rev. CVRIE bOHΘH tO SOCOVLO E Patriarchal cross on three steps. DO 31d. Sear 1684. Ricotti-Prina 63.
Extremely rare. A graffito (X) and an insignificant mark
on reverse, otherwise good very fine

Ex Hess-Leu 24 March 1959, 424; Leu-M&M 11 March 1987, 78; Sotheby's 2 November 1998, An important private collection of Byzantine coins, 458 and Heritage 3035, 2011, 29564 sales. From the Andre Constantine Dimitriadis collection.
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