Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, AV Histamenon Nomisma. Constantinople, AD 1019-1025. ⧾ IҺS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIҺM, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus with crescents in upper quarters, pallium, and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, codex in left hand / ⧾ bASIL C COҺSTAҺ TIb R, crowned half-length busts of Basil, wearing loros and being crowned from above by manus Dei, and Constantine, wearing jewelled chlamys, holding long cross between them. Füeg 6D; DOC 6a; Sear 1800. 4.42g, 24mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine.
From the inventory of a German dealer.