415, Lot: 628. Estimate $200. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (23mm, 4.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1001-1005. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; rosette of seven pellets in each cross arm of nimbus / Crowned half-length 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. VF, a few scratches.

From the D. Massey Collection, purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd.