200, Lot: 344. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. Fourrée Histamenon Nomisma (21mm, 2.72 g, 6h). Facing bust of Christ, holding Gospels, raising hand in benediction / Crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing short beard and loros, and Constantine, beardless and draped, each wearing crown topped with cross, holding patriarchal cross between them. Cf. DOC 2; cf. SB 1796. VF, ragged edge, numerous small breaks in the plating.

From the Norman Frank Collection.