Savoca Coins
Online Auction 38 | Silver 2 Nov 2019
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Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII AD 976-1025. Struck AD 989-1001. Constantinople
Histamenon Nomisma AV
22 mm., 4,36 g.
+ IhS XIS REX REGNANTIhm, bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing cross nimbus with five pellets in each arm, His right hand raised in blessing and holding book of Gospels in His left / + bASIL C COhStAhTI 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 patriarchal cross between them.
nearly very fine
Cf. DOC 3ff; Sear 1795.
Histamenon Nomisma AV
22 mm., 4,36 g.
+ IhS XIS REX REGNANTIhm, bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing cross nimbus with five pellets in each arm, His right hand raised in blessing and holding book of Gospels in His left / + bASIL C COhStAhTI 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 patriarchal cross between them.
nearly very fine
Cf. DOC 3ff; Sear 1795.