325, Lot: 748. Estimate $300. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (26mm, 4.39 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1005-1025. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; crescents in upper quarters of nimbus / Crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding long cross between them. DOC 6a; SB 1800. Good VF.