Triton XXII, Lot: 1205. Estimate $750. Sold for $1100. 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. + IҺS XIS RЄX RЄςNΛNτIҺm, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; pellet in each bar of nimbus / + bΛSILC COnSτΛnτI b R, crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, draped, holding patriarchal cross with pellet at each end between them. DOC 2a; Füeg 2.BB illustration corr. (pellet only on upper arm); SB 1796. EF, a couple of minor die breaks on obverse.