| Description: | Basil II and Constantine VIII, AV Histamenon Nomisma, 977 AD, Constantinople, 23mm x 25mm, 4.38g. + IhS XIS REX REGNANTInm, Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cross ornamented with two dots in sections in the limbs of the cross, holding book of Gospels and raising right hand / + bASIL C COnStAntI b Rm, crowned facing busts of Basil with short beard on left, wearing loros of square pattern, and Constantine VIII, beardless on right, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them, single border of dots. SB 1797, DO 3. |
