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Brother of Tiberius III Apsimar?

326, Lot: 625. Estimate $150.
Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Heraclius. Patrikios and monostrategos, circa 700-750. PB Seal (24mm, 23.03 g, 12h). Cruciform, invocative monogram forming ΘЄOTOKЄ BOHΘЄI; HP–AK[Λ]/ЄI–ω in quarters / +ΠA/TPIKIω/S MONOC/TPATI/[Γω+?] in five lines. BLS I 1982 var. (CTPRATHΓω). Good VF.


Zacos (BLS, p. 1112), following Mordtmann (ΕΘΣ, Vol. VII, 1872-3, p. 71), suggests this seal belongs to the brother of Tiberius III Apsimar (698-705), who was appointed monostrategos in 698.