Constantine IX Monomachus AD 1042-1055. Constantinople
Histamenon Nomisma AV
26 mm, 4,34 g
+ IhC XIC RCX RCSnAnTIhm, bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, with cross nimbus with crescent in each upper quarter, right hand raised in benediction and left hand holding book / + CωhstATh bASILCЧS Rm, bust of Constantine facing, wearing loros and crown with pendilia, holding scepter ending in leaved cross in his right hand and globus surmounted by a cross resting on a crescent in his left.
good very fine
DOC 3; Sear 1830.