Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2133. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $485. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil I, the Macedonian, with Constantine. 867-886. AV Solidus (4.42 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 868-879. Christ enthroned facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels; five-rayed star at end of legend / Crowned facing busts of Constantine VII, wearing short beard and loros, and Romanus II, beardless and draped, each wearing crown topped with cross, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC II 2c; SB 1704. Good VF, obverse struck with slightly rusty dies.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.