374, Lot: 594. Estimate $400. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (21mm, 4.19 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 976-977. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator / Crowned facing busts of Basil II, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. Cf. DOC type 2a; Füeg II 1.A; SB 1796. VF, holed and plugged.