CNG 87, Lot: 1947. Estimate $500. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Kievan Rus. Tmutarakan (Principality). temp. Mstislav Volodimirovich Khorobry (the Brave). Circa 990-1024. AR ‘Miliaresion’ (22mm, 1.35 g, 7h). Imitating a Constantinople mint Miliresion of Basil II Bulgaroktonos. Crowned busts facing, wearing loros and chlamys, respectively, and each wearing crown with pendilia; between, long cross crosslet set on base with three steps / Pseudo-legend in five lines. Golenko 1; Stack’s, 12 January 2009, lot 3636. VF, flan slightly chipped.