Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, AV Histamenon Nomisma. Constantinople, AD 989-1001. +IҺS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIҺM, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator / +bASIL C COҺSTAҺ TIb R m, crowned half-length facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross crosslet between them. Sear 1797; DOC 3b. 4.38g, 24mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
From the inventory of a German dealer.