Lot 136
Lot 30136 > Basil II Bulgaroctonos (AD 976-1025), with Constantine VIII. AV tetarteron nomisma (22mm, 4.03 gm, 7h). NGC MS 4/5 - 3/5, clipped. Constantinople, AD 977-989. + IhS XIS RЄX REϚNANTIhm, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger ornamented with wedge in each arm, pallium, and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left arm / + bASIL C COhSTAh TIb R, facing busts of Basil II, wearing loros of lozenge pattern, and Constantine VIII, wearing plain chlamys pinned at right shoulder, jointly holding patriarchal cross between them, triangle on shaft. Sear 1802.
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