Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1868. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ROMANUS II. 959-963 AD. AV Solidus (4.39 gm, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 959 AD. Continuing the last type of Constantine VII. Facing bust of Christ; two pellets in arms of nimbate cross / Crowned facing busts of Constantine and Romanus, holding patriarchal cross between; legend has been re-cut and is illegible. F. Füeg, "Vom Umgang mit Zufall und Wahrscheinlichkeit in der numismatischen Forschung," SNR 76 (1997), pl. IV, B4; DOC III - (but cf. DOC 15 of Constantine VII); SB -. Good VF. Rare. ($1000)