Watch List notes:

Anastasios, chrysoteles (gold tax collector), 11th century. Seal (Lead, 25 mm, 11.28 g, 12 h). M-I-X/A Nimbate facing bust of St. Michael, wearing a loros, holding a scepter in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left hand. Rev. +ΘKЄ R,Θ, / [A]NACTA[C]/...XPCOTЄ/ΛΗ in four lines, with decorations above and flanking the last line. Apparently unpublished. Some areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine.


As chrysoteles, Anastasios was in charge of collecting the "chrysoteleia", a tax paid in gold coins. Stavrakos (SBS 13, p. 144) names seventeen of these officials, which makes our Anastasios thus the eighteenth Byzantine gold tax collector known from seals.