262, Lot: 406. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (21mm, 4.35 g, 6h). Class IV (type C). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 977-989. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; two pellets in each arm 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 topped with globule between them. DOC 12; SB 1797. Near EF, some scuffs, light graffito on obverse.