177, Lot: 224. Estimate $100. Sold for $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Weight. Circa 976-1025. Æ Histamenon Weight (20mm, 3.85 g). +HELIOCELHNATON (sunny-moony, a term applied to the last issue of histamena under Basil II and Constantine VIII, because of their color) in three lines / TODE ELAFRONTERON TOUTOU ARGEI (that [coin] of yours, lighter than this [weight] is not valid) in five lines. Bendall, Byzantine Weights 18. Good Fine, green patina, deposits, patina flaked in spots. Rare.