Watch List notes:

Constantine X Ducas, 1059-1067. Histamenon (Gold, 26 mm, 4.46 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. +IҺS IXS 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. + KⲰN RACΛ O ΔOVKAC On the left, Constantine X standing facing, wearing crown and loros, holding globus cruciger in his left hand; on the right, the Virgin, wearing robes and maphorion, standing facing and crowning the emperor with her right hand; in field, M - Θ flanking Virgin's head. DOC 2. SB 1848. A lustrous and very sharply struck example. Small deposits and very light doubling on the obverse, otherwise, virtually as struck.


From the Nea Rhomē Collection, formed in the early 2000s.