Watch List notes:

Theodora, 1055-1056. Histamenon (Gold, 24 mm, 4.43 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. +IhS XIS DCX RCSNΛNTIhm Christ, nimbate, standing facing on footstool, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. +ΘЄΟΔⲰPA AVΓΟVCTA Theodora, on the left, standing facing, wearing crown with pinnacles and pendilia, divitision and loros decorated with a cross, placing her right hand on breast, and Virgin, on the right, standing facing, nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, holding between them labarum with pellet on shaft; M - Θ flanking Virgin's head. DOC 1b. SB 1837. Some scratches and edge nicks, otherwise, good very fine.


From a collection formed in the Rhineland, ex Giessener Münzhandlung 58, 9 April 1992, 1055a (with original ticket).