166, Lot: 195. Estimate $300. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine VII, Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus II. 913-959. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.45 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 945-959. Facing bust of Christ, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels / Crowned facing busts of Constantine VII, wearing short beard and loros, and Romanus II, beardless and draped, each wearing crown topped with cross, holding patriarchal cross between them; • at base. Cf. DOC III 15; SB 1751. Near EF.