Experts in Coins & Medals

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, 976-1025. Histamenon nomisma (Gold, 21.5 mm, 4.45 g, 6 h), Constantinople, 976-7. + IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTIhm Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator, wearing tunic, himation and a nimbus cruciger with one pellet in the upper and right arms, and two in the left, raising his right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels with his left. Rev. + bASIL' C['C]OhSTAhTIh' b'R' Crowned facing half-length figure of Basil, on the left, with short beard and wearing a modified loros, and Constantine on the right, beardless and wearing a chlamys, holding a patriarchal cross between them with their right hands. DOC 1 var. (two pellets in the left arm of the cross) Füeg 1a. SB 1795. Clear and well-centered. Minor marks. About extremely fine.

ISLANDS OFF ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 525-480 BC. Stater (Silver, 19.7 mm, 11.79 g). Sea turtle seen from above, head in profile; bankers mark on shell. Rev. Square incuse with large skew pattern. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIb; HGC 6, 430. SNG Copenhagen 502-3. Granular surfaces, otherwise, nearly very fine.