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A lead seal of St. Michael holding the labarum and globus. On the obverse an inscription common to most kommerkiarios seal

Coin of a A Byzantine Ruler

A Byzantine Lead seal with a depiction of a griffin facing left on the obverse. On the reverse is a prayer commonly found on all lead seals belonging to the kommerkiarios.

A Byzantine Lead seal with a depiction of a griffin facing left on the obverse. On the reverse is a prayer commonly found on all lead seals belonging to the kommerkiarios.

A 10th century Byzantine Lead Seal created by an individual named Demetrios. On the obverse of the seal is a winged lion with its head turned three-quarters to the front. On the reverse of the seal is a personal incantation.

A Byzantine Lead Seal with a Sphinx facing right on the obverse five lines which can be read as

A Lead Seal with the depiction of a walking griffin on the obverse. On the reverse of the seal an inscription of five lines which can be read as "Lord, help your servant N., protospatharios and kommerkiarios of Thessalonica"

It seems that different dies were mixed to create this bronze Byzantine tetarteron. The obverse, which depicts the Virgin, seems to use the same die as a coin from a coin of Constantine X. The image of Christ on the reverse appears to have been…

This struck bronze follis has been clipped so much that much of the inscription is gone. The minting location and ruler of the time are uncertain– the information may have originally been in the margins. We can tell that the figure depicted is Christ…