172, Lot: 339. Estimate $100. Sold for $92. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theophilus. 829-842. Æ Half Follis (24mm, 5.25 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 830/1-842. Half-length facing figure of Theophilus, wearing loros and tufa decorated with pellets, holding labarum and globus cruciger; small cross to right / Legend in four lines, within circle. DOC III 16c; SB 1668. VF, brown patina. Scarce variety with cross; only one example in DOC.

From The John A. Seeger Collection.