Description
Constantine IX, (AD 1042-1055).
Gold Histamenon, Constantinople.
Obverse: Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus crown, pallium and colobium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of gospels in his left, +IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIҺm.
Reverse: Bust of Constantine IX facing, wearing loros and crown with pendilia, holding cruciform scepter with tendril-ornament in his right hand and globus surmounted by patriarchal cross in his left, +CωnSTAnTn bASILEЧS Rm.
Extremely Fine.
(S 1828a).
4.34g.
