374, Lot: 596. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AR Miliaresion (24mm, 3.18 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 977-989. Cross crosslet, with saltire cross at center; all set upon globus above four steps; to left and right respectively, crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys / + ЬASIL / C CωҺSTAҺ / ΠORFVROS / ΠISTOI ЬAS / RωMAIω in five lines; above and below, star between dashes. DOC (17d); SB 1810. VF, lightly toned, flan bent. Struck on a broad flan.