Nicephorus II Phocas AV Histamenon Nomisma. Constantinople, AD 967-969. ⧾ IҺs XPS RЄX RЄϚNANTIȠm, bust of Christ Pantokrator facing / ⧾ 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, signature I below M. Füeg 3.C.4; DOC 4; Sear 1778. 4.05g, 21mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the Collection of GK, Ukrainian Emigrant.