Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII AD 976-1025. Constantinople
Histamenon Nomisma AV

23 mm., 4,39 g.

+ IhS XIS REX REGNANTIhm, bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing cross nimbus with five pellets in each arm, His right hand raised in blessing and holding book of Gospels in His left / + bASIL C COhStAhTI b R •, crowned facing busts of Basil with short beard on left, wearing loros of square pattern, and Constantine VIII, beardless on right, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them.

very fine

Sear 1795.