Watch List notes:

Constantine IX Monomachus, 1042-1055. Miliaresion (Silver, 28 mm, 2.39 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. + ΔЄCΠΟΙ - ΝΑ CⲰΖΟΙC The Virgin orans, nimbate, standing facing on footstool, wearing pallium and maphorium; in fields to left and right, monogram of MHP and ΘV. Rev. ЄVCЄRH - MONOMAXON Constantine IX standing facing, wearing crown, scale armor, and cloak, holding long cross in his right hand and resting his left on grounded sword in sheath. DOC 7a. SB 1834. Lightly toned and unusually attractive, with a beautiful reverse. Light doubling on the obverse, otherwise, extremely fine.


From a German collection of late Byzantine silver coins, formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s.