391, Lot: 618. 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 (25mm, 4.31 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1005. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; rosette of seven pellets in each cross arm of nimbus / Crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them; manus Dei above Basil. DOC 4; Füeg II 4.C; SB 1798. EF, obverse slightly off center, slight die shift and small area of roughness on reverse.