Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1670. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THEODORA. 1055-1056 AD. AV Histamenon Nomisma (4.40 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. + IhS XIS REX REGNANTInM, Christ standing on footstool facing, raising hand in blessing and holding Gospels; nimbus with single pellets in arms of cross / + QEO?WP AVGOVCTA, Theodora, crowned, and the Virgin standing facing, holding labarum with pellet on the shaft between them; M Q at the Virgin's shoulders. DOC III 1a; SB 1837. EF, nice broad flan. ($1000)