Manuel Skoutariotes, sebastos (13th century), cruciform monogram, ***, rev. metrical legend in six lines, ***, 29.91g. (cf. Seibt, SBS 3, p.24, photo p.25, no.5), split, very fine
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Manuel Skoutariotes, sebastos (13th century), cruciform monogram, ***, rev. metrical legend in six lines, ***, 29.91g. (cf. Seibt, SBS 3, p.24, photo p.25, no.5), split, very fine
Lot Essay
The most famous of the Skoutariotes, Theodore, metropolitan of Cyzicus under Michael VIII Palaeologus, left a chronicle which usefully supplements the history of Nicetas Choniates.