Details
LOT 3948
Constantine X Ducas AE Follis. AD 1059-1067. Constantinople mint.
[+ ЄMMA]-NOVVHΛ, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with pellet in each limb and empty in each quarter, pallium, and colobium, His right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in His left arm; IC XC (barred) across fields / [+ KΩN] RACIΛЄVC O ΔOVK, bust of Constantine X facing, bearded, wearing loros and crown with pendilia, globus cruciger in right hand, akakia in left. DOC 9; SB 1854. Near Very Fine.(6.26gr, 28mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Acquired on the German art market before 2000.
Private collection, South Germany.
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