Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2160. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Theodora. 1055-1056. AV Histamenon Nomisma (4.40 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Christ standing facing on footstool, holding Gospels; nimbus with • in cross arms / Theodora, wearing crown and loros, hand at breast, and the Theotokos, blessing empress, standing facing, holding labarum between them; • on shaft; crown with pendilia. DOC III 1a; SB 1837. Good VF, toned, a few field marks.

From the Marc Poncin Collection. Ex Elsen 83 (12 March 2005), lot 789; Elsen 2 (14 November 1984), lot 281.