271, Lot: 137. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus I and Christopher. 913-959. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 923-924. + XЄ ЬOHӨЄI ROmAnω ∂ЄSPOτH, Romanus standing facing, wearing crown with pendilia, slight beard, and loros, holding globus cruciger, and being crowned by Christ standing to right, with cross behind head, holding Gospel book / COnSτAnτ’ Єτ XPISτOF’ Ь’ R’, crowned facing busts of Constantine, wearing slight beard and loros, and Chrstopher, wearing slight beard and chlamys; patriarchal cross held between. DOC 6; Füeg 6; SB 1743; Berk 275 (this coin illustrated). VF, scrape on the obverse through the head of Romanus. Extremely rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 482.