Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1663. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $720. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BASIL II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025 AD. AV Histamenon (4.34 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, struck 989-1001 AD. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTInM, facing bust of Christ, raising hand in blessing and holding Gospels; nimbus with doubled lines and two pellets in arms / +bASIL' C COnSTAnTI b R', crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding long patriarchal cross-crosslet between them. DOC III 3e; SB 1797. EF, scuff marks, struck from worn dies. ($500)