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271, Lot: 139. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Constantine VIII. 1025-1028. AV Tetarteron Nomisma (20mm, 4.08 g, 7h). Constantinople mint. + IҺS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTIҺm, bust of Christ Pantokrator facing; behind, cross within nimbus crown / + CωnSτAnτIn ЬASILЄЧS Rωm (Ч retrograde), bust facing, wearing crown with pendilia, long beard, and jeweled loros, and holding akakia and globus cruciger. DOC 4; SB 1817. EF, a few light marks. Very rare.


Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 510; William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s New York 6055, 5 december 1990), lot 752.