Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 1126. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTINE X, Ducas. 1059-1067. AR 2/3 Miliaresion (1.57 gm). Constantinople mint. +QKE ROHQ, the nimbate Virgin Mary, orans, standing facing; monogram to left, QV to right; two pellets, large and small, in left and right upper fields / - ­ - +QKE RO HQEI KWN CTANTINW DECPOTH TW DWKA -•-. DOC III 6 var. (field marks); SB 1851. Good VF, nice old Collection toning. Very rare; far superior to the only other specimen we have handled and to the Sear plate coin, which is pierced. ($400)

From the Christopher Connell Collection.