389, Lot: 851. Estimate $500. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nicephorus II Phocas, with Basil II. 963-969. AV Histamenon Nomisma (19mm, 4.38 g, 7h). Constantinople mint. Struck 963-964. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator, wearing nimbus crown, pallium, and colobium, raising hand in benediction, and holding Gospel book / Crowned busts of Nicephorus, wearing loros, and Basil, wearing chlamys, facing, holding long patriarchal cross between. DOC 1; Füeg 1; SB 1776. In NGC encapsulation graded Ch AU, Strike: 5/5; Surface: 4/5.