Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1435. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANONYMOUS. Time of Basil II. 976-1025 AD. Æ Follis (13.06 gm, 6h). Constantinople mint. +EMMA NOVHL, IC XC across field, facing bust of Christ, nimbate, raising hand in benediction, holding Gospels; nimbus with two pellets in arms of cross / +IhSUS XRISTUS bASILEU bASILE in four lines; pellet above. DOC III A2.4; SB 1813. EF, jade green patina. ($300)

From the Malcolm W. Heckman Collection.