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Niketas, anthropos of the Caesar (second half 11th century), nimbate bust of Saint Nicholas facing, wearing phlonion and omophorion, raising right hand in benediction and holding gospel in left, vertical inscriptions in field to left and right, ***, border of dots, rev. in six lines, ***, 9.89g. (Zacos II, 643), extremely fine
Niketas, anthropos of the Caesar (second half 11th century), nimbate bust of Saint Nicholas facing, wearing phlonion and omophorion, raising right hand in benediction and holding gospel in left, vertical inscriptions in field to left and right, ***, border of dots, rev. in six lines, ***, 9.89g. (Zacos II, 643), extremely fine

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Niketas, anthropos of the Caesar (second half 11th century), nimbate bust of Saint Nicholas facing, wearing phlonion and omophorion, raising right hand in benediction and holding gospel in left, vertical inscriptions in field to left and right, ***, border of dots, rev. in six lines, ***, 9.89g. (Zacos II, 643), extremely fine

拍品專文

Though Western style feudalism was unknown in Byzantium, it was not unknown to be the 'man' of a certain lord, in this case a caesar, John Doukas, brother of the emperor Constantine X. The abbreviation s in the word caesar is remarkable.