Constantine IX Monomachus AD 1042-1055. Constantinople
Histamenon AV
28 mm., 4,43 g.
+ IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIҺm, 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 / + CωnST-ATh bASILCVS 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.
good very fine
DOC 3; Sear 1830.