Nicephorus II Phocas AV Histamenon Nomisma. Constantinople, AD 967-969. ⧾ IҺs XPS RЄX RЄςNANTIȠM, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus crown and holding book of Gospels / ⧾ ΘЄOTOC' b' HΘ' ҺICHF, ∂ЄSP, half-length facing busts of the Virgin, nimbate, wearing stola and maphorium, and Nicephorus, wearing crown and loros, holding patriarchal cross between them; M-Θ either side of the Virgin. Füeg 3.C.2; DOC 4.4; Sear 1778. 4.38g, 21mm, 6h.
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