Theodora, Second Reign, AV Histamenon Nomisma. Constantinople, 11 January AD 1055 - 21 August 1056. + IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTINM, Christ standing facing on footstool, wearing nimbus crown, pallium and colobium, holding Gospels in both hands, surrounded by double border / + θЄOΔωPA AVΓOVCTA, Theodora, to left, wearing crown, saccos and loros, and the Virgin, on right, nimbate and clad in pallium and maphorium, with M and Θ either side of Her shoulders, both standing facing, holding between them labarum, surrounded by double border. Sear 1837; DOC 1. 4.38g, 24mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Lustrous. Unusually scyphate.