Theodora Doukaina Palaiologina

Theodora Doukaina Palaiologina. Wife of Michael VIII, 1253-1282. PB Seal (34mm, 35.92 g, 12h). Struck 1259-1282. MP ΘV across upper field; Theotokos seated facing on thokos covered with cushion, wearing chiton and maphorion, holding child Christ / ΘE/OΔW/ΡA EV/CEBE/CTATH/ AVΓΟV/CTA in left field; ΔOV/KAI/NA H/ ΠAΛA[I]/OΛO/ΓI[NA] in right (CTs ligate); Theodora standing facing, wearing crown with pendillia, divitision, and loros, right hand placed before breast in supplication, holding double lotus scepter in left hand. BLS I 122a-b corr. (scepter type); DOCBS -; Seyrig -; Vatican 16; Orghidan -; Jordanov -; Seibt & Zarnitz, 1.3.3. Good VF, nice gray-brown surfaces.