Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1444. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTINE IX, Monomachus. 1042-1055. AV Histamenon Nomisma (4.41 gm, 5h). Constantinople mint. +IHS XIS REX REGNANTIM, facing bust of Christ, nimbate, raising hand in benediction, holding Gospels; crescents in nimbus / +CWNST AN bASILEUS RM, facing bust of Constantine, wearing crown and loros, holding long cross and globus cruciger. DOC III 3; SB 1830. EF. ($300)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection.