Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1151. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus I and Christopher. 913-959. AV Solidus (4.43 g, 6h). Contemporary imitation of Constantinople mint issue of 954. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator / Crowned facing busts of Romanus I, wearing loros, and Christopher, wearing chlamys, holding between them a patriarchal cross. Cf. DOC 13/4 (for obv./rev. types); Füeg-Suppl. p. 356; cf. SB 1747/1746 (for obv./rev. types). EF. Fully lustrous and sharply struck. Füeg cites only one example from these dies.

Ex Ponterio 148 (9 January 2009), lot 459.