378, Lot: 615. Estimate $500. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Andronicus I Gidon. Emperor of Trebizond, 1222-1235. AR Aspron Trachy (31mm, 3.49 g, 6h). The Theotokos standing facing, raising hand in benediction and placing other on chest / Christ Chalkites: Christ standing facing, holding Gospels and placing hand hand on chest. S. Bendall, “A Further Note on a Possible Early Coinage of the Empire of Trebizond”, NumCirc CXIV.4 (August 2006), fig. 2-3; cf. S. Bendall, “An Early Coinage of the ‘Empire’ of Trebizond?”, NumCirc CX.3 (June 2002), 1 = DOC IV pl. XXXVII, El. 1 = SB 2148; Triton XVII, lot 895. VF, die crack on the obverse.