Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2193. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Alexius III, Angelus-Comnenus. 1195-1203. EL Aspron Trachy (4.32 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Christ enthroned facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels / Alexius and St. Constantine I, each wearing loros and holding cruciform sceptre, standing facing, holding labarum between them; St. Constantine I, crowned and nimbate. Cf. DOC IV 2d.2; cf. M. D. O’Hara, “A Hoard of Electrum Trachea of Alexius III,” NC 1977, 5; SB 2010A. Good VF, lightly toned.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.