Savoca Coins
Special Auction 79 21 Jun 2020
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Michael VII Ducas, with Maria AD 1071-1078. Constantinople
Tetarteron Nomisma AV (pale)
18 mm., 4,02 g.
+ [ΘK]Є BO-HΘ[ЄI], nimbate bust of Mary facing, holding before her the infant Christ with nimbate cross behind head, head facing, MP ΘV across fields / [+ MI-X]-AHΛ S M[A-PIA], crowned, half-length figures of Michael, wearing loros on left, and his wife Maria, wearing jewelled robe with broad collar on right, holding between them long Cross with terminal dots to arms and X and crescent on shaft.
nearly extremely fine
Sear 1872; DOC 5d; Berk 330.
Tetarteron Nomisma AV (pale)
18 mm., 4,02 g.
+ [ΘK]Є BO-HΘ[ЄI], nimbate bust of Mary facing, holding before her the infant Christ with nimbate cross behind head, head facing, MP ΘV across fields / [+ MI-X]-AHΛ S M[A-PIA], crowned, half-length figures of Michael, wearing loros on left, and his wife Maria, wearing jewelled robe with broad collar on right, holding between them long Cross with terminal dots to arms and X and crescent on shaft.
nearly extremely fine
Sear 1872; DOC 5d; Berk 330.