Constantine IX Monomachus AD 1042-1055. Struck AD 1049-1053. Constantinople
Histamenon Nomisma AV

29 mm., 4,39 g.

+ IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTIҺm, nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing tunic and pallium, raising His right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in His left, in each upper quarter of nimbus, crescent / + CωnSτ-A-nτ bASILCЧS Rm, bust of Constantine IX facing, wearing loros and crown with pendilia, holding long cross in his right hand and globus surmounted by pelleted cross in his left.

extremely fine

DOC 3; Sear 1830.