Savoca Coins
Online Auction 25 | Silver 16 Sep 2018
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Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII AD 976-1025. Constantinople
Histamenon AV
22mm., 4,40g.
+ bASIL C CONSTANTI b R, crowned, facing busts of Basil, with short beard, wearing loros with square pattern, on left, and Constantine, no beard, wearing chlamys, holding long patriarchal cross between them / + IhS XIS REX REGNANTINM, bust of Christ facing with nimbus cross, holding book of gospels and raising right hand.
good very fine
Sear 1795 var. (one or two dots in each limb of the cross); DOC 1 var. (same).
Histamenon AV
22mm., 4,40g.
+ bASIL C CONSTANTI b R, crowned, facing busts of Basil, with short beard, wearing loros with square pattern, on left, and Constantine, no beard, wearing chlamys, holding long patriarchal cross between them / + IhS XIS REX REGNANTINM, bust of Christ facing with nimbus cross, holding book of gospels and raising right hand.
good very fine
Sear 1795 var. (one or two dots in each limb of the cross); DOC 1 var. (same).