304, Lot: 453. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine and Leo VI. 867-886. Æ Follis (27mm, 7.71 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 870-879. Crowned half-length facing busts of Basil, wearing loros and holding akakia, between Leo and Constantine, each wearing chlamys / Legend in five lines. DOC 11; SB 1712. VF, brown patina.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 1020.