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New Variety

174, Lot: 302. Estimate $300.
Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Michael VII Ducas. 1071-1078. AV Histamenon Nomisma (30mm, 4.37 g). Constantinople mint. Nimbate bust of Christ, raising right hand in benediction and holding Gospels; square and pellets in cross arms, quincunx on Gospels / Crowned facing bust of Michael, wearing loros and holding labarum and globus cruciger, pellet on labarum. DOC III 2d var.; SB 1868. Good VF.


From the Chris Connell Collection.

Published varieties of this type show the Gospel cover adorned with either a stellate pattern or a grid of nine pellets. This piece, with plain cross of five pellets on the cover, is a new sub-variety.