Hess-Divo
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BASILIUS II, AD 976-1025. Histamenon, Constantinople, with Constantine VIII, about 1002-1025. AV 4.38 g. +IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTInm Facing, bearded bust of Christ, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, holding Book of Gospels in his l. hand, his r. hand raised in benediction; triple border. Rev. +bASIL'C COnSTAnT' b R The half-lenght, facing figures of Basil and Constantine, both wearing crown, pendilia and loros; they hold between them long plain cross; triple border. DO III/2, 621, 6a; Sear 1800.
Extremely fine
Provenance:
Dr. A. Voirol, Basel collection (comes with the collector's ticket indicating the coin has been gifted to him in 1937 by his wife Elisabeth during a trip to Paris).
Auction Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel 38 (1968), 732).
BASILIUS II, AD 976-1025. Histamenon, Constantinople, with Constantine VIII, about 1002-1025. AV 4.38 g. +IhS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTInm Facing, bearded bust of Christ, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, holding Book of Gospels in his l. hand, his r. hand raised in benediction; triple border. Rev. +bASIL'C COnSTAnT' b R The half-lenght, facing figures of Basil and Constantine, both wearing crown, pendilia and loros; they hold between them long plain cross; triple border. DO III/2, 621, 6a; Sear 1800.
Extremely fine
Provenance:
Dr. A. Voirol, Basel collection (comes with the collector's ticket indicating the coin has been gifted to him in 1937 by his wife Elisabeth during a trip to Paris).
Auction Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel 38 (1968), 732).