| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 348 Price realized: 2,600 CHF (Approx. 2,956 USD / 2,745 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, 976-1025. Histamenon (Gold, 25 mm, 4.48 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis, circa 1005-1025. +IҺS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTIҺm Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left; in each upper quarter of nimbus, crescent. Rev. +bASIL C COҺSTAҺTI b R Crowned facing half-length busts of Basil II, with short-beard and being crowned by manus Dei, wearing loros on the left, and Constantine VIII, beardless, wearing chlamys on the right, holding between them long cross with pellet on the shaft. DOC 6b. SB 1800. An attractive example, well struck on a broad flan and with a wonderful rendering of Christ. Some scratches on the obverse and the reverse struck from a somewhat worn die, otherwise, extremely fine. From the James Knox Collection of Biblical related coins and the collection of Drs. Karl and Hermann Kochs, Künker 226, 11 March 2013, 1163, previously privately acquired from Peus. Starting price: 250 CHF |  |
