429, Lot: 386. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (21mm, 4.43 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 977-989. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator, • in each arm of cross / Crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, draped, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC 2b; Füeg II 2.E; SB 1796. In NGC encapsulation, 4247547-013, graded MS, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 3/5, graffiti.

Ex Heritage 3046 (14 April 2016), lot 31403.