452, Lot: 824. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (23mm, 4.0 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1001-1005. Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing; 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; suspended crown above Basil’s head. DOC 4c; Füeg II 4.C; SB 1798. A few scratches, traces of deposits. VF.

From the Johnson Family Collection.