Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1438. Estimate $500.
Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.
Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CONSTANTINE VIII. 1025-1028. AV Histamenon Nomisma (4.39 gm, 7h). Constantinople mint. +IhS XIS REX REGnANTInm, facing bust of Christ, nimbate, raising hand in benediction, holding Gospels; nimbus with serifed cross arms, crescents in upper quarters / +CWNSTANTIn bASILEUS ROM, facing bust of Constantine, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum and akakia. DOC III 1.2; SB 1815. EF, struck from worn dies. ($500)
From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXI (9-10 September 1994), lot 1520; Frederick Knobloch Collection (Stack's, May 1984), lot 1765.
