142, Lot: 209. Estimate $300. Sold for $331. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Michael VII Ducas. 1071-1078. EL Histamenon Nomisma ( 27mm, 4.39 g, 6h). Facing bust of Christ, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels; nimbus with five pellets in cross arms; the center pellet in each arm in square / Crowned facing bust, wearing short beard and loros, holding labarum with round pellet in center, and globus cruciger; crown with pendilia. DOC III 2a var. (square pellet in labarum center); SB 1868. EF, light yellow color, reverse scuff at edge.