Īccording to the traditional account, Andrew or his queen would have received the crown from Constantine IX at this juncture. In 1045 the Hungarian King Andrew I married Anastasia of Kiev, a daughter of Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise, whose brother Vsevolod I had been married to Irene (Maria), a daughter of Constantine IX since 1046. The general assumption was for long that the crown "seems almost certainly to be a female crown and was presumably a gift to the wife of a Hungarian king", or to the king himself. In the view of Magda von Bárány-Oberschall and most scholars they almost certainly do not belong to the Monomachus Crown. These medallions lack holes for nails, unlike the gold plates. Also sold were the two smaller cloisonné medallions found with the crown plaques, with busts of the apostles Peter and Andrew. The objects passed to a member of the local landowning nobility, who sold them in four transactions to the Hungarian National Museum between 18, the last sale posthumously via a dealer named Markovits. In 1860 a farmer near Nyitraivánka discovered the treasure while plowing. The central panel, depicting Constantine IX Monomachus If it is a crown, it is, with the Holy Crown of Hungary of a few decades later (also in Budapest) and the kamelaukion of Constance of Aragon, one of only three surviving Byzantine crowns.
The group were unearthed in 1860 by a farmer in what is now called Ivanka pri Nitre in Slovakia, then Nyitraivánka in Hungary.
The group has puzzling aspects that have long made it the subject of scholarly debate it was probably made in Constantinople in 1042. Two gold medallions enamelled with saints and a small piece with cut glass in a setting were also found probably they did not form part of the same object. It consists of seven gold plates depicting Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX Monomachus, his wife Zoe, her sister Theodora, two dancers and two allegorical figures. The Monomachus Crown ( Hungarian: Monomakhosz-korona) is a set of pieces of engraved Byzantine goldwork, decorated with cloisonné enamel, in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest, Hungary.
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