452, Lot: 825. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (24mm, 4.37 g). Constantinople mint. Struck 1005-1019. Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing / 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. Holed and plugged, a few minor edge marks. VF.

From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased from Charles Wolfe, 6 August 1968.