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Auction 123  23-24 May 2023
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Lot 782

Estimate: 4000 USD
Price realized: 8500 USD
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Michael III "the Drunkard", with Theodora and Thecla. 842-867. AV Solidus (19.5mm, 4.15 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 842-circa 843. Crowned facing bust of Theodora, wearing loros, holding patriarchal globus cruciger and cruciform scepter / Crowned facing bust of Michael, wearing chlamys, and holding globus cruciger, and crowned half-length figure of Thecla, to right, wearing loros, and holding patriarchal cross and akakia. DOC 1e; Füeg 1.B; SB 1686. Holed and repaired, overstuck on an earlier Constantinople mint solidus. VF. Very rare.

From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 75 (18 November 2013), lot 724; Sotheby's (17 November 1983), lot 351.
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