Watch List notes:

Constantine IX Monomachus, 1042-1055. Histamenon (Gold, 27 mm, 4.43 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. +IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIҺm Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus crown, pallium and colobium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of gospels in his left. Rev. +CωnSTAnTn bASILEЧS Rm Bust of Constantine IX facing, wearing loros and crown with pendilia, holding cruciform scepter with tendril-ornament in his right hand and globus surmounted by patriarchal cross in his left. DOC 1a. SB 1828. Minor die rust on the reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.


From an old Swiss collection, formed in the 1970s to 1990s.