Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1766. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTINE VII, Porphyrogenitus, with ROMANUS I and CHRISTOPHER. 913-959 AD. AV Solidus (4.39 gm). Constantinople mint. Struck 921-931 AD. Christ, nimbate, enthroned facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels; legend ends with rosette / Crowned facing busts of Romanus I, with short beard and loros, and Christopher, beardless and wearing chalmys, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC III 7; SB 1745. EF, die rust on obverse. ($500)