Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1764. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BASIL I, the Macedonian, with CONSTANTINE. 868-879 AD. AV Solidus (4.40 gm). Constantinople mint. +IhS XPS REX REGNANTIUM, Christ, nimbate, enthroned facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels; legend ends with * / bASILIUS ET CONSTANT' AUGG'b', crowned facing busts of Basil, with short beard and loros, and Constantine, beardless and wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC III 2 var. (reverse legend); SB 1704 var. (same). VF. ($300)

An unrecorded variety, with the emperor's name given as bASILIUS rather than in the proper Greek form bASILIOS.