Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2134. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine VII, Porphyrogenitus, with Zoe. 913-959. Æ Follis (6.15 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 914-919. Crowned facing busts of Constantine, beardless and wearing loros, and Zoe, draped, each wearing crown topped with cross, holding patriarchal cross between them; Zoe’s crown with pendilia / +COnS/TAnTInO/ CE ZOH bA/SILIS RO/mEOn in five lines across fields. DOC III 22; SB 1758. Good VF, dark green patina, minor roughness on obverse.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.