Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, AV Histamenon Nomisma. Constantinople, AD 989-1001. +IҺS XIS REX REGNANTIҺM, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator / +bASIL C COҺSTAҺ TIb R, crowned half-length facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross crosslet with globule on shaft between them. DOC 3; Sear 1797. 4.41g, 25mm, 5h.
Extremely Fine.
From a private German collection.