415, Lot: 624. Estimate $300. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine. 867-886. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.40 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 870-871. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing; star at end of legend / Crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC 2c; Füeg 3.B; SB 1704. VF, a few deposits on the obverse.

From the D. Massey Collection.