Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1423. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BASIL I, the Macedonian. 879-886 AD. Æ Follis (7.32 gm, 6h). Constantinople mint. +bASILIO S bASILEVS *, Basil seated facing on wing-backed throne, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum and akakia / +bASIL IOS En QEO bASILEVS ROMEOn in four lines. DOC III 12; SB 1709. EF, dark green patina, patina scraped off bottom of reverse. ($200)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection.