280, Lot: 377. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AR Miliaresion (25mm, 2.85 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 977-989. Cross crosslet set on pellet on four steps; X at center, • above crescent on shaft; to left and right, crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys / + ЬASIL’/ C CωҺSTAҺ’/ ΠORFVROS’/ ΠISτOI ЬAS’/ RωmAIω’ in five lines. DOC 17b; SB 1810. Good VF, toned, minor roughness and marks. Unusually full flan.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 1061.