Savoca Coins
Online Auction 82 | Silver 26 Jul 2020
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Nicephorus II Phocas AD 963-969. Constantinople
Histamenon Nomisma AV
22 mm, 4,33 g
+ InS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIhm, nimbate bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing tunic and himation, raising right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in His left, two dots in each limb of the nimbate cross / + ΘЄOTOC´ bHΘ´ nICHF ∂ЄS´, facing busts of the Virgin Mary, nimbate, sigla: M and Θ to left and right, I beneath M, and Nicephorus, with short beard, crown topped with cross and pendilia, and loros, on right, holding patriarchal cross with pellet on shaft between them.
very fine
DOC III 4.5; Sear 1778.
Histamenon Nomisma AV
22 mm, 4,33 g
+ InS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIhm, nimbate bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing tunic and himation, raising right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in His left, two dots in each limb of the nimbate cross / + ΘЄOTOC´ bHΘ´ nICHF ∂ЄS´, facing busts of the Virgin Mary, nimbate, sigla: M and Θ to left and right, I beneath M, and Nicephorus, with short beard, crown topped with cross and pendilia, and loros, on right, holding patriarchal cross with pellet on shaft between them.
very fine
DOC III 4.5; Sear 1778.