Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2135. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine VII, Porphyrogenitus. with Romanus II and Constantine. 913-959. AV Solidus (4.36 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 921. Christ enthroned facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels; five-rayed star at end of legend / +ROmAn´ ET COnSTAnt´ AYGG´ b´, crowned facing busts of Romanus II, wearing short beard and loros, and Constantine VII, beardless and draped, each wearing crown topped with cross, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC II 4.1 (same dies); SB 1746. Good VF. Rare.