Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1429. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTINE VII, Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus II. 913-959 AD. AV Solidus (4.35 gm, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 945-959 AD. +IhS XPS REX REGNANTIUm, facing bust of Christ, nimbate, raising hand in benediction, holding Gospels; nimbus with two pellets in arms of cross / CONSTANT' CE ROMAN' AVGG b, crowned facing busts of Constantine, wearing loros, and Romanus, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC III 15; SB 1751. EF. ($400)