From the Collections of Poncin, Conte, Hunt and O’Hara

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 859. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus I and Christopher. 913-959. AV Solidus (4.42 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 921. +kE bOHQEI ROmAnw dESPOTH, Romanus I standing facing, wearing crown and loros, holding globus cruciger in right hand, extending left hand to Christ standing facing, laying right hand of blessing on Romanus and holding Gospels in left / COnSTAnT’ ET XPISTOF’ b’ R’, crowned half-length facing busts of Constantine VII, wearing loros, and Christopher, wearing chlamys, holding between them a long patriarchal cross. DOC III 6 var. (dECPOTH); SB 1743 var. (same). Near EF, minor scrape on edge at top. Very rare.

From the Mark Poncin Collection. Ex Leu 83 (6 May 2002), lot 911; W. J. Conte Collection (Baldwin’s 2, 5 October 1994), 120; W. H. Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s New York, 5 December 1990), lot 700; Numismatic Fine Arts X (17 September 1981), lot 489; M. D. O’Hara Collection (Bonhams-Vecchi III, 3 December 1980), lot 290; SBV Zurich 2 (27 October 1977), lot 613.