142, Lot: 208. Estimate $300. Sold for $305. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Michael VII Ducas. 1071-1078. EL Histamenon Nomisma ( 27mm, 4.49 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Facing bust of Christ, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels; nimbus with five pellets in cross arms / Crowned facing bust, wearing short beard and loros, holding labarum and globus cruciger; crown with pendilia. DOC III 2a; SB 1868. EF. This piece is deep yellow in color - very high grade electrum, if not gold.