Ancients
Constantine IX Monomachus. 1042-1055. AV histamenon nomisma (4.36 gm). Constantinople. Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus, pallium, and colobium, raising hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels / Half-length bust of Constantine facing, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum and globus cruciger. DOC 2a. Sear 1829. A lovely example for the type. Extremely Fine. From The Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection. Ex William Herbert Hunt Collection Part II (Sotheby's New York, June 1991), lot 228 (part of).
Estimate: 450-600 USD