ANCIENT COINS, Byzantine, Nicephorus II (AD 963-969), Gold Solidus, bust of Christ facing, wearing a nimbus cruciger, a pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels, rev facing busts of the Virgin, nimbate, and Nicephorus, crowned, holding between them a patriarchal cross, 4.36g, 6h (DO 4; Sear 1778). Light die-flaw on the obverse, extremely fine.
Estimate: £1200-1500