CNG 96, Lot: 1380. Estimate $500. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Kievan Rus. Tmutarakan (Principality). temp. Mstislav Volodimirovich Khorobry (the Brave). Circa 990-1024. AR ‘Miliaresion’ (22mm, 1.63 g, 12h). Imitating a Constantinople mint Miliresion of Basil II Bulgaroktonos. Crowned busts facing, wearing loros and chlamys, respectively; crowns with pendilia; between, long cross crosslet set on base with three steps; pellet-in-crescent on shaft / Pseudo-legend in five lines; ornament above. Golenko 1; Golden Horn Collection (Stack’s, 12 January 2009), lot 3636. VF, toned, typical irregular flan.