Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1664. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BASIL II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025 AD. AV Histamenon (4.41 g, 7h). Constantinople mint, struck 1005-1025 AD. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTInM, facing bust of Christ, raising hand in blessing and holding Gospels; nimbus with arms with splayed ends and crescents in upper quarters / +bASIL' C COnSTAnTI b R, crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding long cross between them. DOC III 6a; SB 1800. EF, scuff marks, light graffiti. ($500)