Sale: Nomos 9, Lot: 333. Estimate CHF675.  Closing Date: Monday, 20 October 2014.  Sold For CHF700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine IX Monomachus, 1042-1055. Histamenon (Gold, 26mm, 4.44 g 6), Constantinople. +IhC XIC RCX RCSnΛnTIhM Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, with cross nimbus with crescent in each upper quarter, right hand raised in benediction and left hand holding book. Rev. +CωnSTAnT bASILEuS RM Crowned facing bust of Constantine IX, wearing collar piece and loros, and holding a cross-tipped scepter in his right hand and a globus cruciger in his left. DOC 3. Attractive but with some very slight flatness. Extremely fine.

From a European collection.