280, Lot: 360. Estimate $150. Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil I the Macedonian. 867-886. Æ Follis (25mm, 6.47 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 879-886. Crowned figure of Basil enthroned facing, wearing loros, holding akakia and labarum / + ЬASIL/IOS ЄҺ ӨЄO/ ЬASILЄVS/ ROmЄOҺ in four lines. DOC 12; SB 1709. VF, green patina, minor rough patch on last line of reverse.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 1018.