Savoca Coins
Online Auction 29 | Silver 30 Dec 2018
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Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine AD 867-886. Struck circa AD 871-886. Constantinople
Solidus AV
20mm., 4,46g.
+ IҺS XRS RЄX RЄGNANTIЧM ✱, Christ, nimbate, seated facing, wearing chiton, raising his right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in his left / bASILIOS ЄT COҺSTAҺT' AЧGG' b', crowned facing busts of Basil, with short beard and loros, and Constantine, beardless and wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them.
extremely fine
DOC 2; Sear 1704.
Solidus AV
20mm., 4,46g.
+ IҺS XRS RЄX RЄGNANTIЧM ✱, Christ, nimbate, seated facing, wearing chiton, raising his right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in his left / bASILIOS ЄT COҺSTAҺT' AЧGG' b', crowned facing busts of Basil, with short beard and loros, and Constantine, beardless and wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them.
extremely fine
DOC 2; Sear 1704.