Byzantine
Michael VII Ducas (1071-1078 AD) Constantinople
AV/EL histamenon nomisma scyphate (28mm, 4.44g)
Obv: Christ seated facing on straight-backed throne, wearing nimbus cruciger with single pellet in each arm, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left; IC-XC barred across fields, double border.
Rev: +MIX-AHΛ-RACIA O Δ, bust of Michael VII facing, bearded, wearing loros and crown with pendilia, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger with cross composed of four pellets in left; double border.
Sear 1869.