Lot 219
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Theophilus (829-842), Solidus, 2.87g., Syracuse(?), crowned facing bust, wearing loros and holding cross potent, TEOFILOC, rev. TEOFILOC, crowned facing bust, wearing chlamys, eight-pointed star to left (cp. Spahr 419, 420, 423, DO 24 and Sear 1670), an enigmatic and apparently unpublished issue with the reverse bust not holding a cross on globe, scratches to right of reverse head, pale gold, very fine, possibly unique
Theophilus (829-842), Solidus, 2.87g., Syracuse(?), crowned facing bust, wearing loros and holding cross potent, TEOFILOC, rev. TEOFILOC, crowned facing bust, wearing chlamys, eight-pointed star to left (cp. Spahr 419, 420, 423, DO 24 and Sear 1670), an enigmatic and apparently unpublished issue with the reverse bust not holding a cross on globe, scratches to right of reverse head, pale gold, very fine, possibly unique

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Theophilus (829-842), Solidus, 2.87g., Syracuse(?), crowned facing bust, wearing loros and holding cross potent, TEOFILOC, rev. TEOFILOC, crowned facing bust, wearing chlamys, eight-pointed star to left (cp. Spahr 419, 420, 423, DO 24 and Sear 1670), an enigmatic and apparently unpublished issue with the reverse bust not holding a cross on globe, scratches to right of reverse head, pale gold, very fine, possibly unique