Ancients
Basil I the Macedonian (AD 867-886), with Constantine. AV solidus (20mm, 4.44 gm, 6h). NGC MS 5/5 - 3/5. Constantinople, AD 870-871. + IhS XPS RЄX-RЄGNANtIЧM*, full length figure of Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left / bASILIOS ЄT CONStANt' AЧΣΣ b', crowned facing busts of Basil I (on left), with short beard, wearing loros, and Constantine (on right), beardless, wearing chlamys pinned in center, jointly holding patriarchal cross with globule at base between them. Sear 1704.
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Estimate: 1000-1500 USD