Watch List notes:

Andronicus II Palaeologus, with Andronicus III, 1282-1328. Trachy (Bronze, 23 mm, 2.41 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. Nimbate Virgin Mary standing facing, orans, wearing pallium and maphorium; in fields MP - ΘV. Rev. Half-length figures of Andronicus III and Andronicus II standing facing, both holding long cross between them; Andronicus III, on the left, wearing stemma divitision, loros and holding trilobate scepter in his right hand; Andronicus II, on the right, wearing differing kind of stemma, divitision and loros and holding trilobate scepter in his left hand; around, partly legible legend. SB 2464. Very rare and unusually well preserved. Somewhat double struck, otherwise, good very fine.


Ex Leu Web Auction 18, 19-21 December 2021, 3930 and previously from a European collection, formed before 2005.