Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1434. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANONYMOUS. Time of Basil II. 976-1025. Æ Follis (20.10 gm, 7h). Constantinople mint. +EMMA NOVHL, IC XC across field, facing bust of Christ, nimbate, raising hand in benediction, holding Gospels; nimbus with + in arms of cross / +IhSUS XRISTUS bASILEU' bASILE' in four lines; arrowheads flanked by pellets above and below. DOC III A2.31; SB 1813. EF, dark brown patina. ($300)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection.