148, Lot: 453. Estimate $75. Sold for $64. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Anonymous Folles. Time of Basil II & Constantine VIII, circa 976-1025. Æ Follis (32mm, 15.96 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Nimbate facing bust of Christ, holding Gospels; nimbus with two pellets in arms of cross / +IhSUS XRISTUS bASILEU bASILE in four lines; pellets above and below. DOC III A2.5; SB 1813. VF, brown surfaces, sharp Christ portrait.
From the Robert Kutcher Collection.