Watch List notes:

BYZANTINE SEALS, Administration. Kosmas, imperial protospatharios and kommerkiarios of Thessalonica, circa 9th -10th century. Seal or Bulla (Lead, 20 mm, 9.98 g, 12 h), Thessalonica. ΚΕ ΒΟΗΘΗ ΤΩ CΩ ΔΟΥΛΩ around patriarchal cross set on base and two steps; crosses in the lower left and right inner fields. Rev. KOC/MA B'ACΠAΘΑΡ, S KO/YMEPKHA/P, ΘΕCCA/ΛΟΝΙ in six lines within simple border. Unpublished but cf. DO Seals 1, 18.38 for multiple seals of the same magistrate before being promoted to imperial protospatharios. Very rare. Nearly very fine.