Sale: Triton X, Lot: 860. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (4.42 g, 7h). Constantinople mint. Struck 977-989(?). +IhC XI REX REGNANTIhM (C retrograde), facing bust of Christ, raising right hand in blessing, holding Gospels in left, wearing nimbus with •• in cross arms / +bASIL C COnSTAnTI b R, crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing short beard and loros, and Constantine, beardless and draped, each wearing crown topped with cross, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC III 2b var. (legend); SB 1796. Good VF.

From the Mark Poncin Collection.