Byzantine
Constantine IX Monomachus (1042-1055 AD). Constantinople.
AV/EL tetarteron nomisma (14.6mm 3.98g).
Obv: +IhS XIS RЄX RЄϚNANTIhM (first h retrograde), bust of Christ facing, wearing plain nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left; single border
Rev: + Cwh-AhT-hOS ILЄ m, bust of Constantine IX facing, wearing crown with pendilia and jeweled chlamys with collar, transverse labarum in right hand, globe surmounted by pelleted cross in left; single border.
Sear 1833.