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Long Beach Signature Sale 3049 12-13 Sep 2016
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Basil II Bulgaroctonos (AD 976-1025), with Constantine VIII. AV histamenon nomisma (4.35 gm). Constantinople, AD 977. Bust of Christ Pantocrator facing, wearing cruciform nimbus, pallium, and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, and holding book of Gospels cradled in left arm / Crowned busts of Basil (on left), with slight beard, wearing loros of horizontal pattern, and Constantine, beardless, wearing chlamys pinned at right shoulder, each grasping long patriarchal staff held between them, pellet on cross shaft. Sear 1795. DOC 1. Rare. NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 3/5, crimped.
Estimate: 700-900 USD
Basil II Bulgaroctonos (AD 976-1025), with Constantine VIII. AV histamenon nomisma (4.35 gm). Constantinople, AD 977. Bust of Christ Pantocrator facing, wearing cruciform nimbus, pallium, and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, and holding book of Gospels cradled in left arm / Crowned busts of Basil (on left), with slight beard, wearing loros of horizontal pattern, and Constantine, beardless, wearing chlamys pinned at right shoulder, each grasping long patriarchal staff held between them, pellet on cross shaft. Sear 1795. DOC 1. Rare. NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 3/5, crimped.
Estimate: 700-900 USD