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Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII AD 976-1025. Struck AD 977. Constantinople
Miliaresion AR. Class I
25 mm., 2,90 g.
[+] IhSЧ XSI-STЧS (sic) hICA, patriarchal cross crosslet on five steps, three borders of dots, the middle one ornamented with eight globules / + bASIL' C COnSτAn ΠORΓVROC ΠISτV bAS' RωmAIω in five lines, ormanent above and below, three borders of dots, the center one ornamented with eight globules.
nearly very fine
DOC IIIb 16; P. Grierson, "The Gold and Silver Coinage of Basil II," ANSMN 13 (1967), pl XXXIX, I; Sear 1808.
Only one example in CoinArchives and possibly only three or four known.
Professor Grierson suggests that this Miliaresion was a transitional issue struck for only a few weeks in 977 shortly after Basil and Constantine's accession.
Miliaresion AR. Class I
25 mm., 2,90 g.
[+] IhSЧ XSI-STЧS (sic) hICA, patriarchal cross crosslet on five steps, three borders of dots, the middle one ornamented with eight globules / + bASIL' C COnSτAn ΠORΓVROC ΠISτV bAS' RωmAIω in five lines, ormanent above and below, three borders of dots, the center one ornamented with eight globules.
nearly very fine
DOC IIIb 16; P. Grierson, "The Gold and Silver Coinage of Basil II," ANSMN 13 (1967), pl XXXIX, I; Sear 1808.
Only one example in CoinArchives and possibly only three or four known.
Professor Grierson suggests that this Miliaresion was a transitional issue struck for only a few weeks in 977 shortly after Basil and Constantine's accession.