Savoca Coins
Online Auction 32 | Silver 14 Apr 2019
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Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII AD 976-1025. Struck AD 977. Constantinople
Histamenon Nomisma AV
22 mm., 4,38 g.
+ IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIҺm, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cross ornamented with two dots in the limbs of the cross, holding book of Gospels and raising right hand / + bASIL C COnSτAnτI b R, crowned facing busts of Basil with short beard on left, wearing loros of square pattern, and Constantine VIII, beardless on right, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them.
very fine
Sear 1797.
Histamenon Nomisma AV
22 mm., 4,38 g.
+ IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIҺm, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cross ornamented with two dots in the limbs of the cross, holding book of Gospels and raising right hand / + bASIL C COnSτAnτI b R, crowned facing busts of Basil with short beard on left, wearing loros of square pattern, and Constantine VIII, beardless on right, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them.
very fine
Sear 1797.