Lot 307
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Michael Apelates (12th-13th centuries), Saint Michael standing on round cushion, facing, wearing loros, a panel, ornamented with pearls, over his left arm, holding sceptre with trefoil top in right hand, and globus cruciger in left, vertical inscriptions in field to left and right, ***, border of dots, rev. metrical legend in four lines, ***, 24.93g. (unpublished), extremely fine
Michael Apelates (12th-13th centuries), Saint Michael standing on round cushion, facing, wearing loros, a panel, ornamented with pearls, over his left arm, holding sceptre with trefoil top in right hand, and globus cruciger in left, vertical inscriptions in field to left and right, ***, border of dots, rev. metrical legend in four lines, ***, 24.93g. (unpublished), extremely fine

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Michael Apelates (12th-13th centuries), Saint Michael standing on round cushion, facing, wearing loros, a panel, ornamented with pearls, over his left arm, holding sceptre with trefoil top in right hand, and globus cruciger in left, vertical inscriptions in field to left and right, ***, border of dots, rev. metrical legend in four lines, ***, 24.93g. (unpublished), extremely fine

Lot Essay

The term apelates was applied to light troops or, in the chansons de gestes, irregulars. Apelates is also a proper name, used for example by a strategos of the Karavisiens in the eighth century. This Michael Apelates does not appear to be particularly famous.

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