277, Lot: 353. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (22mm, 4.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 977-989(?). Facing bust of Christ Pantocrator; two pellets in each arm of nimbus cross / Crowned busts of Basil and Constantine facing, holding patriarchal cross between and wearing loros and chlamys, respectively. DOC 2b; SB 1796. VF.