Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1425. Estimate $200. Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005. Sold For $225. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CONSTANTINE VII, Porphyrogenitus, with Zoe. 913-959 AD. Æ Follis (5.40 gm, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 914-919 AD. +COnSTAn CE ZOH b', crowned facing busts of Constantine, wearing loros, and Zoe, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal between them / + COnS TAnTIO' CE ZOH bA SILIS RO MEOn in five lines. DOC III 22; SB 1758. VF, dark brown patina, a bit rough on the reverse. ($200)
From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica "Autumn Sale" (26-27 October 1995), lot 915.