Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1695. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine IX Monomachus. 1042-1055. AV Histamenon Nomisma (4.39 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing; throne has pearl-ornamented curved arms / Crowned facing bust, wearing short beard and loros, holding cruciform scepter and globus cruciger. Cf. DOC 3.5; SB 1830. EF.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection. Ex William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s, 5 December 1990), lot 772.