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Auction 14 18-19 Apr 2018
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Basil II and Constantine VIII. Tetarteron.
976-1025 AD. Tetarteron, 4.22g (5h). Constantinople, c. 1005-25 AD. Obv: Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing pallium and colobium, holding Book of Gospels with both hands. Rx: +bASIL C CONStAhTI bR Facing crowned bust of Basil, with short beard, on left, wearing loros, and Constantine, beardless, on right, wearing ornamented robe, holding between them long patriarchal cross with X on shaft. Berk 291. DO 15b. Sear 1806. Ex Berk 140, 27 October 2004, lot 41. aEF.
976-1025 AD. Tetarteron, 4.22g (5h). Constantinople, c. 1005-25 AD. Obv: Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing pallium and colobium, holding Book of Gospels with both hands. Rx: +bASIL C CONStAhTI bR Facing crowned bust of Basil, with short beard, on left, wearing loros, and Constantine, beardless, on right, wearing ornamented robe, holding between them long patriarchal cross with X on shaft. Berk 291. DO 15b. Sear 1806. Ex Berk 140, 27 October 2004, lot 41. aEF.