258, Lot: 527. Estimate $200. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (21mm, 4.00 g, 7h). Constantinople mint. Struck 977-989. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; single pellet in bars of nimbus / Crowned half-length facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC 2; SB 1796. VF, light flan, probably slightly clipped.