67, Lot: 161. Estimate $75. Sold for $98. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTINE VII and ROMANUS I. 920-944 AD. AR Miliaresion (24mm, 3.01 gm). Constantinople mint. Oval medallion with facing portrait of Romanus I, bearded and wearing crown and loros, on cross potent on three steps; cross of five pellets below; R W-M A in fields / Five-line legend with cross of five pellets above and below; all within triple border ornamented with eight pellets. DOC III 20; SB 1755. Toned, choice VF, holed and plugged in antiquity.