CLASSICAL NUMISMATIC AUCTIONS SALE XVIII
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950. CONSTANTINE IX Monomachos. 1042-1055 AD. AV Tetarteron Nomisma (4.01 gm). Constantinople. +ILS XIC REX RECNANTIm, bust of Christ facing, holding Gospels/CWA ANT hOSILE R, bust of Constantine, wearing crown and jeweled chlamys, holding labarum and globus cruciger. SB 1833; DOC III 6.14. Good VF. (750)
951. CONSTANTINE X. 1059-1067 AD. AV Histamenon Nomisma (4.39 gm). Constantinople. +IhS XIS REX RESNANTIhm, Christ enthroned / KWN RAC A Ο AOYKAC, Constantine, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum and globus cruciger. SB 1847. Good VF. (175)
952. JOHN VIII. 1421-1448 AD. AR Stavraton (6.63 gm). Constantinople. Facing bust of Christ; crescents at side / IWANHC AECnOTHC Ο ΠΑΑΕΟΑΟΙΤ ΘΥ ΞΑΠΓΤΊ Β ACIAEYC TWN PWM, facing bust of John; pellets at sides. SB 2563. Good VF. Rare with fully legible inscription. (125)
955. ARAB-SASSANIAN. Ziyad b. Abi Sufyan. Year 41 (AH52/53=573/574 AD). AR Drachm (3.82 gm). DA (Darabjrd) mint. Sassanian style bust right / Fire altar with attandents; date and mint. Walker, Arab-Sassanian, pg. 40,58. Toned good VF. (50)
956. ARAB-SASSANIAN. Ubaidallah. Year 60 (679/680 AD). AR Drachm (4.31 gm). Β JR A (al Basra) mint. Sassanian style bustright/ Fire altar with attandents; date and mint. Walker, Arab-Sassanian, pg. 59, ETN 12. EF. »־i (80)
957. ARAB-SASSANIAN. Salm ibn Ziyad. Year AH 63 (682/683 AD). AR Drachm (3.14 gm). Bust right wearing elaborate crown, three counters tamps of the Hephthalites (White Huns) around the border / Fire altar flanked by two attendants. Walker, Arab-Sassanian, pg. 82,145; cf. MACW 1406 for countermarks. VF, flan chip. (75)
953. JOHN VIII. 1421-1448 AD. AR Stavraton (6.68 gm). Constantinople. Facing bust of Christ; crescents at side / IWANHC AECI1 Ο ΠΑΛ BAC PW(?), facing bust of John; pellets at sides. See article by 958. ARAB-SASSANIAN. Farrukhzad. Circa 694-698 AD. /E Fais Donald, NC Nov 86, pg. 294. VF. Rare. (150) (0.68 gm). Ardashir Khurra mint. Sassanian style bust right / Senmurg, A rare variant ofstavrata with a single line ofreverse inscription. Struckfrom mythical dragon-bird left Apparently unpublished, but cf. Steve Album, list the same reverse die as the pieces illustrating the article in NC. 67, lot 34. VF. Rare. (150) Only a handful of coins are known of this otherwise unknown Arab governor in Persia.
954. JOHN VIH. 1421-1448 AD. AR Half Stavraton (3.37 gm). Constantinople. Facing bust of Christ; crescents at side / IWANHC AECnOTHC Ο ΠΑΛ Ρ, facing bust of John; pellets at sides. SB 2625. Good VF. Rare with fully legible inscription. (100) 106
959. CHIOS. Under Genoa. 1400-1413. AV Ducat (3.52 gm). Imitating a Venetian ducat of Michele Steno. Christ standing in glory / Doge kneeling before SL Mark. Gamberini 395. VF. (175)