Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2136. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine VII, Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus I, Lecapenus, and Christopher. 913-959. AR Miliaresion (3.07 g, 12h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 921-931. Cross potent on three steps; • below lowest step / +ROmAnO´/COnSTAnT´/CE XPISTOF´/En X•w EVSE/b´ bASIL´ R´ in five lines across fields; all within triple pelleted border, eight pellets around. DOC III 17; SB 1753. Good VF, toned.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.