CNG 87, Lot: 1299. Estimate $400. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (24mm, 4.32 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; two pellets in bars of nimbus / Crowned half-length facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding cross crosslet between them. DOC 1; SB 1795. Good VF, minor deposit on reverse.