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E-Sale 102  3 Nov 2022
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Lot 1465

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 360 GBP
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Alexius and John Asen(?) Æ Trachy. Uncertain Mint (possibly mint on the Thracian coast), circa AD 1300-1399. St. Demetrios standing facing, orans; flanked by towers topped by stars / Two imperial figures standing facing, each holding sceptre; stars between them, heavenly cloud or Manus Dei above. S. Bendall, "The Diokitirion Square Trakion Reconsidered," in NK 21 (2002), p. 107-110; S. Bendall, "An Enigmatic Fourteenth Century Coin," in NC vol. CIV.2 (March 1996), p. 39, 8; C. Morrisson, "The Emperor, the Saint, and the City: Coinage and Money in Thessalonike from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century," in Dumbarton Oaks Papers, No. 57 (2003) p. 182-83. 1.57g, 18mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine. Extremely rare and still a mystery to numismatists.
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