325, Lot: 743. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine. 867-886. Æ Follis (28mm, 9.06 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 868-870. Crowned figures of Basil and Constantine enthroned facing, each wearing loros, holding labarum between them / + ЬASILO’/ S COnSτAn/τInOS Єn ӨO/ ЬASILЄIS R/OMAIOҺ in five lines. DOC 9b var. (obv. legend); SB 1710. VF, dark green patina.
Ex J. P. Righetti Collection, 1019 (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 280, 6 June 2012), lot 357.