Basil I the Macedonian (AD 868-886), with Constantine. AV solidus (19mm, 7h). NGC VF, edge bend. Constantinople, AD 870-871. + IhS XPS RЄX-RЄGNANtIЧM star, full-length figure of Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium, and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left / bASILIOS ЄT COhStAht' AЧΣΣ 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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