382, Lot: 503. Estimate $150. Sold for $137. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AR Miliaresion (23.5mm, 2.48 g, 12h). Constantinople mint. Struck AD 977-989. Cross crosslet with central X set on globus atop four steps, between crowned facing busts of Basil and Constantine / + ЬASIL/ C CWҺSTAҺ/ ΠORFVROS/ ΠISTV/ ЬAS’/ RWMAIW’ in five lines; ornament above and below. DOC 18a.1; SB 1811. Good VF, toned, crystallized.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Cederlind 136 (26 October 2005), no. 294.