Christ Pantokrator

390, Lot: 599. Estimate $750. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (25mm, 4.38 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1005-1019. 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. Choice EF.