389, Lot: 854. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (26mm, 4.41 g, 7h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1019-1025. Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing; crescents in upper quarters of nimbus / Crowned half-length busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding long, plain cross between them. DOC 6a; Füeg II 6D; SB 1800. In NGC encapsulation graded MS, Strike: 5/5; Surface: 5/5.

Ex Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection (Heritage 3035, 3 September 2014), lot 29616 (Stack’s pedigree listed erroneous).