BYZANTINE EMPIRE
BASIL II, Bulgaroktonos (A.D. 976-1025). AV histamenon numisma. +IHS XIS REX REGNANTINM, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, and raising right hand in benediction; in left hand, book of Gospels)+ bASIL' C CONSTANT' b R, facing busts of Basil, with short beard (on left) and Constantine, beardless (on right), both crowned; they hold between them long patriarchal cross; Basil wears loros of square patterns, whilst hos brother is clad in plain chlams. SB 1800. 4,45 g.
Grade: 01 [EF]