255, Lot: 368. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus I. 913-959. AV Histamenon Nomisma (21mm, 4.35 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 950-955. + IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTInm, bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing nimbus crown, pallium, and colobium, raising hand in benediction, and holding Gospel book / COnSτAnτ’ CЄ ROmAn’ AЧςς Ь R’, crowned busts of Constantine, wearing loros, and Romanus, wearing chlamys, facing, holding long patriarchal cross between. DOC 15; Füeg 15.C.1; SB 1751. Near EF.