Ancient Gold Coins
Lot 4980 Session 16 (9.30am Friday) Ancient Gold Coins
Estimate $450
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $340
ROMANUS IV, (1068-1071), gold histamenon nomisma (scyphate), Constantinople mint, Class II, (4.35 grams), obv. Christ standing on footstool, with nimbus crowning Romanus and Eudocia, IC XC, around +PWMA EVDKKA (sic), rev. Michael in centre, Constantius on left, and Andronicus on right, without footstools, around KWN MX AN**D*, (S.1861, DOC 2, R.2026). Weak on left portraits, otherwise very fine.
Ex Superior Galleries, Beverly Hills, California, February 2005 (lot 5133).
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Estimate $450
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