Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1446. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CONSTANTINE IX, Monomachus. 1042-1055. AV Tetarteron Nomisma (4.04 gm, 5h). Constantinople mint. +IHS XIS REX REGNANT[IM], facing bust of Christ, nimbate, raising hand in benediction, holding Gospels / +CWNST ANt bASL[EUS RM], facing bust of Constantine, wearing crown and jewelled chlamys, holding labarum and globus cruciger; no jewels on collar. DOC III 6; SB 1833. EF, small edge flaw. ($500)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection.