Savoca Coins
Online Auction 31 | Silver 10 Mar 2019
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Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine AD 867-886. Struck circa AD 871-886. Constantinople
Solidus AV
19 mm., 4,38 g.
+ 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.
very fine
DOC 2; Sear 1704.
Solidus AV
19 mm., 4,38 g.
+ 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.
very fine
DOC 2; Sear 1704.