Watch List notes:

Constantine IX Monomachus, 1042-1055. Histamenon (Gold, 29 mm, 4.43 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. +IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTInm Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus crown, pallium and colobium, raising his right hand in benediction and book of gospels in his left. Rev. +CωnSTAnTn bASILEЧS Bust of Constantine IX facing, wearing loros and crown with pendilia, holding scepter in his right hand and globus surmounted by a cross resting on a crescent in his left. DOC 1b. SB 1828a. Very rare. Minor marks, otherwise, good very fine.