262, Lot: 405. 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 (23mm, 4.41 g, 5h). Class II. Constantinople mint. Struck circa 977-989. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; three pellets around circumference of nimbus / Crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros with lozenge pattern, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, each with crown topped with cross, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC 2e; SB 1796. VF, struck from a worn reverse die.