Triton XVIII, Lot: 1343. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (24mm, 4.42 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1005-1025. +IҺS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTIҺm, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; crescents in upper quarters of nimbus / +ЬASIL Є COҺSτAҺτIҺ R, crowned half-length busts of Basil, wearing loros and being crowned from above by manus Dei, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding long cross between them. DOC 6a; SB 1800. Choice EF, light scratch in reverse field. Fine style bust of Christ.

From the Collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 1133.