Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1771. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $440. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTINE VII, Porphyrogenitus, with ROMANUS II. 913-959 AD. AV Solidus (4.36 gm). Constantinople mint. Struck 945-959 AD. Nimbate (three pellets in arms of cross) facing bust of Christ, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels / Crowned facing busts of Constantine, with short beard and loros, and Romanus, beardless and wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC III 15.23; SB 1751. Good VF. ($300)