Watch List notes:

THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Theodora, 11 January 1055 – 31 August 1056

Histamenon 1055-1056, AV 4.42 g. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTIhm Christ, nimbate, standing facing on footstool, wearing pallium and colobium and holding Book of Gospel. Rev. [+Θ]EOΔωPA – AVΓOYCt Theodora, crowned, and the Virgin, nimbate, standing facing holding labarum between them; the Empress wears saccos and loros, the Virgin is clad in pallium and maphorion. On either side of her shoulders, M – Θ. DO 1a. Sear 1837.
Rare. Extremely fine


Ex Gorny and Mosch sale 203, 2012, 625.