Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1440. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ROMANUS III, Argyrus. 1028-1034. AV Histamenon (4.41 gm, 6h). Constantinople mint. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTInM, Christ, nimbate, enthroned facing, raising right hand in benediction, holding Gospels in left / QCE bOHQ' RWMAnW, half-length facing busts of Romanus, wearing crown and loros with six pellets, holding globus cruciger, and the nimbate Virgin Mary, who crowns Romanus. DOC III 1b.6; SB 1819. EF, scattered die flaws. ($300)