Theodora, Sole Reign (AD 1055-1056). AV histamenon nomisma (26mm, 4.39 gm, 6h).

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Theodora, Sole Reign (AD 1055-1056). AV histamenon nomisma (26mm, 4.39 gm, 6h). NGC Choice XF 4/5 – 4/5. Constantinople. + IhS XIS RЄX-RЄΣNANTIhm, Christ standing facing on dais, wearing nimbus cruciger with single pellet in each arm, pallium, and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left arm; double border / + ΘЄOΔΩPA-AVΓOVCTA, Theodora (on left) standing facing, right hand on breast, wearing crown with pendilia, divitision and loros, and the Virgin (on right) standing facing, nimbate, wearing maphorium, left hand raised in benediction, jointly holding labarum between them, with square and four pellets on banner, pellet on shaft, and terminating in globe; M-Θ in fields around Virgin, double border. Sear 1837. DOC III, Part 2, 1a. Well defined devices on fields of buttercup.