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Long Beach Signature Sale 3035 Online Sess. 9-10 September 2014
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Basil I the Macedonian (AD 867-886), with Constantine. AV solidus (20mm, 4.43 gm, 6h). Constantinople, AD 870-871. + IhS XPS RЄX RЄGNANTIЧM*, Christ, nimbate, seated facing, wearing chiton, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels / bASILIOS ЄT CONSTANT AЧςς b, crowned facing busts of Basil, with short beard and loros, and Constantine, beardless and wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. Sear 1704. DOC 2c. NGC (photo-certificate) AU 5/5 - 2/5, scratches.From The Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection. Ex William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby's New York, 21 June 1991), lot 557 (part of).
Estimate: 400-550 USD
Basil I the Macedonian (AD 867-886), with Constantine. AV solidus (20mm, 4.43 gm, 6h). Constantinople, AD 870-871. + IhS XPS RЄX RЄGNANTIЧM*, Christ, nimbate, seated facing, wearing chiton, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels / bASILIOS ЄT CONSTANT AЧςς b, crowned facing busts of Basil, with short beard and loros, and Constantine, beardless and wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them. Sear 1704. DOC 2c. NGC (photo-certificate) AU 5/5 - 2/5, scratches.From The Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection. Ex William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby's New York, 21 June 1991), lot 557 (part of).
Estimate: 400-550 USD