Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (24mm, 4.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1005.

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Lot: 639. Estimated: $ 750

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Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (24mm, 4.37 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1005. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; rosette of seven pellets in each cross arm of nimbus / Crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross-crosslet between them; manus Dei above Basil. DOC 4; Füeg II 4.C; SB 1798. A little weakly struck at center. Good VF. Struck on a broad flan.


Closing Date and Time: 5 January 2022 at 13:32:40 ET.

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