Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 837. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theophilus. 829-842. AV Solidus (3.85 g, 6h). Syracuse mint. Struck 830/1-842. ΘЄ OFILOS, crowned facing bust, wearing loros, holding cross potent in right hand / ΘЄ OFILOS, crowned facing bust, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger in right hand. DOC 24; Spahr 422; SB 1670. EF, toned. Well struck.

From the Norman Frank Collection. Ex Jürgen K. Schmidt Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 60, 22 May 2002), lot 2018; P.J. Donald Collection (Baldwin's Auction 5, 11 October 1995), lot 199; Messina Hoard, circa 1961.