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245, Lot: 535. Estimate $100.
Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BYZANTINE. Constantine. Apo hypaton, 7th century. PB Seal (23mm, 17.97 g, 12h). +Kω/NCTAN/TINOV in three lines / +/AΠO/ VΠA/TωN in four lines. BLS I - (but cf. 776 for another seal likely of the same individual). VF.


The title hypatos was initially the equivalent of a Roman consul. By the 6th century it had become a mere honorific.