Constantine IX Monomachus, 1042-1055. Histamenon (Gold, 28mm, 4.42 g 6), Constantinople. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTIhM Christ, nimbate, seated facing on lyre-backed throne. Rev. CωnSTAnTh bASILEU Rm Bust of Constantine IX facing, wearing loros and crown with pendilia, holding scepter ending in leaved cross in his right hand and globus cruciger with a patriarchal cross in his left. DOC 1a. SB 1828. An attractive example. Extremely fine.

From the Stoecklin Collection, ex Sternberg X, 25 November 1980, 693.

This is another very late addition to the Stoecklin Collection, probably because the late Dr. W. M. Stoecklin had become particularly interested in Byzantine coins at this point.