452, Lot: 820. Estimate $300. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine. 867-886. AV Solidus (18.5mm, 4.34 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 871-886. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing; star at end of legend / Crowned busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, facing, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC 2c; Füeg 3.C.2; SB 1704. A few minor marks, traces of earthen deposits. Near VF.

From the Johnson Family Collection.