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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1140. Estimate $200. 
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. 
Sold For $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Kosmas. Hypatos and comes of the Hieron, 9th century. PB Seal (26mm, 8.28 g, 12h). QEOTOKE BOHQEI in cruciform monogram; Tw Cw [D](OY) Lw in quarters / KOCMA/ VPATw S K/[O]MITH TO[V]/ [I]EPOV in four lines; • above. Cf. BLS I 2077 (seal of same person); DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican -; Orghidan -; Jordanov -. VF, gray patina.


From the Robert E. Hecht Collection.

The Hieron was a fortress on the Bosporos near the entrance to the Black sea. From the 6th to the 9th centuries it was commanded by a comes, whose duties were to defend the approach to Constantinople and to oversee the collection of taxes on sea traffic.