Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2140. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $435. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine VII, Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus II. 913-959. AV Solidus (4.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 945-959. Facing bust of Christ, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels; nimbus with ••• in cross arms / Crowned facing busts of Constantine VII, wearing short beard and loros, and Romanus II, beardless and draped, each wearing crown topped with cross, holding patriarchal cross between them; • at base. Cf. DOC III 15.33; SB 1751. Good VF, die shift on reverse.