Basil II Bulgaroctonos (AD 976-1025) with Constantine VIII. AV histamenon nomisma (26mm, 4.42 gm, 7h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Constantinople, AD 989-1001. + IhS XIS RЄX RЄϚNANTIhm, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with annulets in upper quadrants, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left; triple border / + bASIL Є COhStAhtIh R, crowned facing busts of Basil II (on left), bearded, wearing loros of large jeweled pattern, crowned from above by manus Dei, and Constantine VIII (on right), beardless, wearing jeweled chlamys pinned at right shoulder, jointly holding long cross between them; triple border. Sear 1800.

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