255, Lot: 371. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (21mm, 4.40 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 977. + IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTInm, bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing nimbus crown, pallium, and colobium, raising hand in benediction, and holding Gospel book / + ЬASIL C COnSτAnT’ Ь R, crowned busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, facing, holding long patriarchal cross between. DOC 1; SB 1795. Good VF, light graffito on the obverse.