280, Lot: 363. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil I the Macedonian, with Leo VI and Alexander. 867-886. Æ Half Follis (20mm, 2.59 g, 6h). Uncertain provincial mint. Crowned facing bust of Basil, wearing loros, holding cross potent and akakia / Crowned facing busts of Leo and Alexander, each wearing chlamys; star above, cross between heads. DOC 13a.3 (Constantinople mint); SB 1722. Near VF, green and brown patina. Rare.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 1028.