Michael VII Ducas AD 1071-1078. Constantinople
Histamenon Nomisma EL
30 mm., 4,30 g.
Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing tunic and pallium, and nimbate cross behind head, with five dots in the limbs of the cross, raising His right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in His left, in fields, IC XC, all within double border of dots / + MIX-AHΛ RACIΛ O Δ, bust of Michael VII facing, wearing loros and crown with pendilia, holding labarum in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left, all within double border of dots.
very fine, flattened
DOC 2c.1-2; Sear 1868.