Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 840. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine IX Monomachus. 1042-1055. AV Histamenon Nomisma (4.40 g, 6h). Class III. Constantinople mint. Struck 1042-1055. + IhS XIS RЄX RЄSNANTIhm, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing; crescents in upper quarters of nimbus / + CωnS ΛτL bASILЄЧS Rm, crowned facing bust, wearing short beard and loros, holding cruciform scepter and globus cruciger; cross composed of four pellets. DOC 3; SB 1830. EF.

From the Norman Frank Collection.