160, Lot: 357. Estimate $75. Sold for $49. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Time of Romanus III, AD 1028-1034. Æ Follis (29mm, 9.40 g, 5h). Constantinople mint. Class B. Facing bust of Christ, raising hand in benediction, holding Gospels; nimbus with pelleted square in arms of cross, • in first and second quarters / IS XS/BASILE/BASILE, cross with pellet at end of upper bar and ends of crossbar set on three steps. Cf. DOC III B.8 (for type); SB 1823. Good VF, olive green patina.