271, Lot: 144. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Isaac I Comnenus. 1057-1059. AV Tetarteron Nomisma (20mm, 4.08 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. + IҺS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTIҺm (first Һ and S’s retrograde), facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; behind, cross within nimbus crown / + ICAAKIOC BACIΛЄVC PM, Isaac standing facing, wearing crown with pendilia, medium beard, armor, and cloak, and holding scabbard and globus cruciger. DOC 3; SB 1845. EF, scrape across Isaac’s leg on the reverse.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Spink 121 (7 October 1997), lot 566.