John I Tzimisces AV Histamenon Nomisma. Constantinople, AD 969-976.Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus crown and holding book of Gospels / Half-length facing busts of John, wearing crown and loros, holding patriarchal cross, and the Virgin Mary; manus Dei above John, MΘ above the Virgin. DOC III 3; Sear 1785. 4.42g, 20mm, 6h.
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