Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 1679. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EUDOCIA. 1067. AV Histamenon Nomisma (4.35 gm). Constantinople mint. Christ enthroned facing / Eudocia, crowned and holding sceptre, standing facing on footstool, flanked by Michael and Constantius. DOC III 1; SB 1857. Near EF, good strike. Scarce. ($750)

Eudocia, widow of Constantine X, ruled as regent for her young sons Michael and Constantius. The empire faced a military crisis in the east as the Turks advanced further into Asia Minor, and it was felt a competent military leader should be emperor. Eudocia had declared she would never remarry but, willingly or not, she married Romanus Diogenes and proclaimed him emperor.