| Description: | Basil II and Constantine VIII. 967-1025 AD. AV Histamenon (4.42 gm). Constantinople mint. 1005-1025 AD. + IhS XIS REX REGNANTInm, Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cross ornamented with two crescents 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 plain cross between them. DOC 6a, SB 1800. |
