147, Lot: 565. Estimate $200. Sold for $915. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (25mm, 4.29 g). Constantinople mint. Struck 1005-1025. Nimbate facing bust of Christ, holding Gospels / Crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding cross between them. DOC III 6a; SB 1800. VF, a little wavy.

From the Henry Chitwood Collection.