Watch List notes:

Constantine IX Monomachus, 1042-1055. Histamenon (Gold, 29 mm, 4.43 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. +IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTIҺm Christ, nimbate, seated facing on lyre-backed throne, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. +CωҺSTҺ IASILEЧS Rm Bust of Constantine IX facing, wearing loros and crown with pendilia, holding labarum in his right hand and globus surmounted by simple cross in his left. DOC 2a. SB 1829. The flan bent and straightened (?) and with light doubling on the obverse, otherwise, about extremely fine.


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