Basil I the Macedonian (AD 867-886), with Constantine. AV solidus (20mm, 4.37 gm, 6h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 2/5, scratches, scuffs. Constantinople, AD 870-871. + IhS XPS RЄX-RЄϚNANTIЧM*, full-length figure of Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with single ray in each arm, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left / bASILIOS ЄT CONStANt' AЧϚϚ b', crowned facing busts of Basil I (on left), with short beard, wearing loros, and Constantine (on right), beardless, wearing chlamys pinned at right shoulder, jointly holding patriarchal cross with globule at base between them. Sear 1704.

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