Sale: Triton X, Lot: 857. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus I. 913-959. AV Solidus (4.38 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 920-921. +IhS XPS REX REGNANTIUM*, Christ, nimbate, seated facing on wide lyre-backed throne, raising right hand in blessing; book of the Gospels resting on left knee / COnST’ CE ROmAn’ AUGG’ b, crowned facing busts of Constantine VII, beardless, and Romanus I, with short beard, each wearing loros, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC III 3; SB 1741. Good VF.