104, Lot: 219. Estimate $200. Sold for $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BASIL II, Bulgaroktonos, and CONSTANTINE VIII. 976-1025 AD. AV Histamenon (26mm, 4.38 gm). Struck 1005-1025 AD. Nimbate (plain cross arms with crescents in upper quarters) facing bust of Christ, holding Gospels / Crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding cross (plain shaft) between them. DOC III 6a; SB 1800. VF, wavy flan, several scuffs.