366, Lot: 980. Estimate $400. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (22.5mm, 4.46 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 977-989. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator, •• in each arm of cross / Crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, draped, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC 2b; Füeg II 2A; SB 1796. EF, some softness of strike on obverse, traces of deposits.

Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CXIII/3 (June 2005), no. BY0260.