The Byzantine Empire
Theodora, 1055 – 1056. Histamenon 1055-1056, AV 4.43 g. +IhS XIS DCX RCGNΛNTIhm Christ, nimbate, standing facing on footstool, wearing pallium and colobium and holding Book of Gospels. Rev. +ΘЄOΔωPΛ – ΛVΓOVCt Λ 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 1d. Sear 1837.
Rare. Struck on a broad flan and extremely fine
Ex Leu 22, 1979, 452 and Leu 91, 2004, 918 sales.