Hess-Divo
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BASILIUS II, AD 976-1025. Histamenon, gold, Constantinople, with Constantine VIII, about 989-1001. AV 4.43 g. +IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTInm Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciform, two pellets in each arm of the cross, pallium and colobium, holding Book of Gospels in his l. hand, his r. hand raised in benediction. Rev. +bASIL C COnSTAnT I b Rm The facing busts of Basil and Constantine, holding between them large patriarchal cross with crosslets; both wearing crown with pendilia, Basil wearing loros of square pattern, Constantine chlamys. DO III/2, 617, 3b; Sear 1797.
Scarce variant. Extremely fine
BASILIUS II, AD 976-1025. Histamenon, gold, Constantinople, with Constantine VIII, about 989-1001. AV 4.43 g. +IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTInm Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciform, two pellets in each arm of the cross, pallium and colobium, holding Book of Gospels in his l. hand, his r. hand raised in benediction. Rev. +bASIL C COnSTAnT I b Rm The facing busts of Basil and Constantine, holding between them large patriarchal cross with crosslets; both wearing crown with pendilia, Basil wearing loros of square pattern, Constantine chlamys. DO III/2, 617, 3b; Sear 1797.
Scarce variant. Extremely fine