255, Lot: 369. Estimate $500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nicephorus II Phocas, with Basil II. 963-969. AV Histamenon Nomisma (21mm, 4.39 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 963-964. + IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTInm, bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing nimbus crown, pallium, and colobium, raising hand in benediction, and holding Gospel book / + nICHFOP CЄ ЬASIL’ AЧςς Ь R’, crowned busts of Nicephorus, wearing loros, and Basil, wearing chlamys, facing, holding long patriarchal cross between. DOC 1; Füeg 1; SB 1776. Good VF.