Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1431. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NICEPHORUS II, Phocas, with Basil II. 963-969 AD. AV Histamenon Nomisma (4.40 gm, 6h). Constantinople mint. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTIhm, facing bust of Christ, nimbate, raising hand in benediction, holding Gospels; nimbus with three pellets in arms of cross / NIKH FOP KAI RACIL' AVG'R' P', crowned facing busts of Nicephorus, wearing loros, and Basil, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC III 2; SB 1777. Good VF. ($750)