Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 458. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Romanus IV Diogenes. 1068-1071. AV Tetarteron Nomisma (4.02 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. + ΘKЄ ROHΘ, half-length facing bust of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary), holding medallion containing facing bust of Holy Infant; MP ΘV, each surmounted by macron, across field / ΙωM(Λ missing second stile) ЄVΔK OMΛ (sic), half-length facing busts of Romanus, wearing short beard and loros, and Eudocia, wearing jeweled robe, holding globus surmounted by long jeweled cross between them. DOC 3; SB 1862. EF, lightly toned.