271, Lot: 132. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theophilus, with Constantine. 829-842. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.39 g, 7h). Constantinople mint. Struck 830-831. * ӨЄOFI LOS ЬASILЄ’, crowned facing bust of Theophilus, wearing slight beard and chlamys, and holding akakia and patriarchal cross / + COnSτAnτ’ ∂ЄSPOτI’ X, crowned facing bust of Constantine, wearing loros and holding cruciform scepter and globus surmounted by patriarchal cross. DOC 2; Füeg 2.A.1; SB 1654. Good VF, minor edge knock. Very rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 1122.