278, Lot: 451. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Nomisma (19mm, 4.22 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1005-1025. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; two pellets in bars of nimbus / Crowned facing busts of Basil and Constantine, holding patriarchal cross with X on shaft between them. DOC 15b; SB 1806. Good VF.