374, Lot: 595. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (21mm, 4.13 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 977-989. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator / Crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. Cf. DOC type 2c; Füeg II 2.B; SB 1796. Good VF.