Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1427. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $440. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTINE VII, Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus I and Christopher. 913-959 AD. AR Miliaresion (2.86 gm, 12h). Constantinople mint. Struck 921-931 AD. IhSUS XRI STUS nICA, cross potent on three steps; globus below / + ROMAnO, XPISTOFOR, CE COnSTAn, En X'W EVSE b' bASIL' R' in four lines; triple dotted border with eight spaced pellets. DOC III 18; SB 1754. EF, choice old collection toning. ($200)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection.

This remarkable coin puts the legitimate emperor, Constantine VII, son of Leo VI in third place, behind the regent Romanus Lecapenus and his son Christopher.