412, Lot: 837. Estimate $300. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Kievan Rus. Vladimir I Svyatoslavich the Great. 980-1015. AR Srebrennik (23mm, 1.46 g, 6h). Type I. Christ Pantocrator facing / Half-length facing bust of Vladimir, holding cross-tipped scepter; [trident to right]. Sotnikova & Spasskij Type I; cf. O. Pritsak, The Origins of the Old Rus' Weights and Monetary Systems (Cambridge, MA. 1998), p. 127, 28-1. VF, find patina. Very rare, even as a large fragment.