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Nomos 24

22 May 2022
Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Zurich

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Estimate: 2000 CHF
Hammer Price:  1900 CHF
Lot 466

BYZANTINE SEALS. Theodora, 1055-1056. Seal or Bulla (Lead, 40 mm, 50.20 g, 12 h), Constantinople. + ЄMMA-NOYHΛ / IC - XC Draped bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing nimbus decorated with five pellets in each arm, holding Book of Gospels with his left hand and raising his right hand in benediction. Rev. [+ ΘЄOΔΩP' ΑΥΓOΥ]-CTΑ H ПOPΦΥΡ,ΓΕΝ,Τ Bust of Theodora Porphyrogenite facing, wearing ornate jewelled crown with pendilia and jewelled loros, holding staff surmounted by cross set on tendrils in her right hand, and raising her left hand in supplication. Seibt 19. Zacos I 82 var. (different boulloterion). Clear and with fine grey patina with light earthen deposits. Some scratches on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine.

From the Strategos Collection of important Seals, ex Solidus 8, 23 April 2016, 384.

Online bidding closes: 22 May 2022, 09:00:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 19 Apr 2024, 03:30:09 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:1900 CHF

Pre-Bidding closes on 22 Mai 2022 at 9:00 CEST. Live bidding starts at 14:00 CET and is EXCLUSIVELY available on biddr. Separate registration is required.

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