Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1666. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ROMANUS III, Argyrus. 1028-1034. AV Histamenon Nomisma (4.43 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTInM, Christ enthroned facing, raising hand in blessing and holding Gospels / QCE bOHQ' RWMAnW, standing figures of Romanus, wearing loros (five pellets on hem) and holding globus cruciger, and the Virgin Mary (not nimbate), who crowns Romanus; no M Q between. DOC III 1a var (six pellets; font face=symbol>M Q); SB 1820. EF. ($750)

See Classical Numismatic Group 40 (4 December 1996), lot 1929 for another example lacking the M Q.