Sale: Triton X, Lot: 862. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Michael VII Ducas. 1071-1078. EL Histamenon Nomisma (4.40 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1071-1078. Nimbate facing bust of Christ, raising right hand in benediction, holding Gospels in left; IC XC across field, pellet above each / +MIX AHL RACILOD, crowned facing bust of Michael, wearing short beard and loros, holding labarum with pellet on shaft in right hand, globus cruciger in left. DOC III 2d var. (no pellets above IC XC); SB 1868. EF, slight die shift on reverse. Rare variety with pellets on obverse.