Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, AV Histamenon Nomisma. Constantinople, circa AD 1001-1005. ⧾ IҺS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIҺM, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator, wearing nimbus with pellets, pallium, and colobium / • ⧾ 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 with tablion, holding long cross between them. DOC 4; Sear 1798. 4.38g, 23mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
From the inventory of a German dealer.