Basil II Bulgaroktonos and Constantine VIII AV Tetarteron Nomisma. Constantinople, AD 977-989. + IҺS XIS REX REGNANTIҺM, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus crown ornamented with pellets, pallium, and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, codex in left hand / + bASIL C CONSTAN TIb R, facing busts of Basil II, wearing loros, and Constantine VIII, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC 12; Sear 1802. 4.19g, 21mm, 6h.
Good Extremely Fine; centrally struck on a broad flan.
From a private Swiss collection.