Basil II Bulgaroctonos (AD 976-1025) with Constantine VIII. AV histamenon nomisma (26mm, 4.40 gm, 7h). NGC Choice MS 5/5 - 5/5. Constantinople, AD 989-1001. + IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIhM, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with annulets in upper quadrants, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left; triple border / + bASIL Є COhStAhtIh R, crowned facing busts of Basil II (on left), bearded, wearing loros of large jeweled pattern, crowned from above by manus Dei, and Constantine VIII (on right), beardless, wearing jeweled chlamys pinned at right shoulder, jointly holding long cross between them; triple border. Sear 1800. Ex Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection (Heritage Auction 3035, 3 September 2014), lot 29612; Spink (March 1994), lot 596.

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