Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 1125. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTINE IX, Monomachus. 1042-1055. AV Histamenon Nomisma (4.47 gm). Constantinople mint. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTIM, nimbate facing bust of Christ, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels; nimbus with splayed cross arms and crescents / +CWNST ATn bASILEUS R, facing bust of Constantine, wearing crown and loros, holding cruciform sceptre and globus cruciger. DOC III 3; BN 4; SB 1830. Superb EF. ($300)