325, Lot: 744. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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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.
Ex J. P. Righetti Collection, 1021 (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 280, 6 June 2012), lot 359.