355, Lot: 706. Estimate $200. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AR Miliaresion (21mm, 2.39 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 977-989. Cross crosslet set on pellet on four steps; X at center, • above crescent on shaft; to left and right, crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys / +ЬASIL/ C CωҺSTAҺ/ ΠORFVROS/ ΠISτOI ЬAS/ RωmAIω in five lines; – * – above and below. DOC (17d); SB 1810. VF, attractively toned, slight wave to flan.

From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection.