Savoca Coins
Online Auction 32 | Silver 14 Apr 2019
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Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII AD 976-1025. Struck AD 1005-1025. Constantinople
Histamenon Nomisma AV
26 mm., 4,41 g.
+ IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIҺm, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cross ornamented with two crescents, holding book of Gospels and raising right hand / + bASIL C COҺSτAҺτI 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 plain cross between them.
nearly extremely fine
DOC 6a; Sear 1800.
Histamenon Nomisma AV
26 mm., 4,41 g.
+ IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIҺm, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cross ornamented with two crescents, holding book of Gospels and raising right hand / + bASIL C COҺSτAҺτI 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 plain cross between them.
nearly extremely fine
DOC 6a; Sear 1800.