Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1430. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NICEPHORUS II, Phocas, with Basil II. 963-969 AD. AV Solidus (now the Histamenon Nomisma) (4.42 gm, 6h). Constantinople mint. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTInm, facing bust of Christ, nimbate, raising hand in benediction, holding Gospels; nimbus with three pellets in arms of cross / nICHFOR, CE bASIL' AUGG bR', crowned facing busts of Nicephorus, wearing loros, and Basil, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC III 1; SB 1776. Choice EF. ($750)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVIII (8 December 1993), lot 523; Monetarium List 48 (Autumn 1987), lot 208.