Triton XVII, Lot: 884. Estimate $500. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (25mm, 4.43 g, 6h). Class VI. Constantinople mint. Struck 1005-1025. + IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTInM, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; crescents in upper quarters / + bASIL Є COnSτAnτIn R, crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros and being crowned from above by manus Die, and Constantine, draped, holding long cross between them. DOC 6a; SB 1800. EF, scratch on reverse, double struck.

Ex Bowers & Merena (13 September 1993), lot 15.