415, Lot: 629. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (26mm, 4.39 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1005-1019. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; 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 6.B; SB 1800. VF, scrapes and scratches, some flatness of strike.

From the D. Massey Collection, purchased from Clark Smith.