Description
Romanus IV Diogenes, Byzantine Emperor through marriage to Empress Eudokia Makrembolitissa 1068-1071 AD, Gold Histamenon Nomisma (4.37g, 27mm, Scyphate), Constantinople mint. Obverse: Christ stands facing forward on footstool wearing nimbus crown, pallium and colobium, and crowning Romanus IV to the left and Eudokia, to the right; each ruler wears saccos and loros and hold a globus cruciger in left and right hand respectively; “IC” and “XC” either side of Christ’s head, all within double border, blundered legend around. Reverse: Co-Emperors Michael VII at centre, Constantius to left and Andonicus to right standing facing forward, all beardless and crowned and wearing saccos and loros, and holding labarum and akakia; Constantius holds globus cruciger in right hand and akakia in left, Andronicus the opposite, dotted exergual line below, all within double border, blundered legend around, “KWN MX [ANΔ]”. Sear-1861. Despite the blundered legend, a fact often the case with the late Byzantine types, and some minor hairlines, an honest, attractive piece, details Very Fine or better.