Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1213. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTINE VII and ROMANUS II. 945 AD. AV Solidus (4.41 gm). Constantinople mint. Struck 945-959AD. +IhS XPS REX REGNANTIUM, nimbate (two pellets in arms of cross) bust of Christ facing, holding Gospels / +CONSTANT' CE ROMAN' AUGG IR, crowned facing busts of Constantine, wearing loros, and Romanus, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC III 15.8; cf. BN 17; SB 1751. Choice EF. ($750) 

Ex James Fox Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 40, 4 December 1996), lot 1923; William Herbert Hunt Collection: Highly Important Byzantine Coins (Sotheby's, 5-6 December 1990), lot 714.