280, Lot: 359. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine and Leo VI. 867-886. Æ Follis (27mm, 7.34 g, 12h). Constantinople mint. Struck 870-879. Crowned half-length figures of Basil, wearing loros, between Constantine and Leo, each wearing chlamys / + ЬASIL/ COҺSτAҺ/τ S LЄOҺЄN/ ӨO ЬASIL/ ROmЄOҺ in five lines; star below. DOC 10d; SB 1713. VF, grayish-green and brown patina.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 1021.