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Web Auction 18  18-21 Dec 2021
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Lot 3850

Starting price: 200 CHF
Price realized: 2800 CHF
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Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine, 867-886. Solidus (Gold, 20 mm, 4.28 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis, 868-879. +IhS XPS RЄX RЄςNANTIЧM✱ Christ, nimbate, seated facing on throne, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. bASILIOS ЄT COҺSΤAhT'AЧςς b' Crowned facing busts of Basil I, with short beard on the left and wearing loros, and Constantine, beardless on the right and wearing chlamys, holding, with their right hands, a long patriarchal cross between them. DOC 2. SB 1704. Beautifully struck and attractive. Light marks on the obverse, otherwise, extremely fine.
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