THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Basil II Bulgaroctonos, 11 January 976 – 15 December 1025, with Constantine VIII, co-emperor throughout the reign
Histamenon circa 989-1001 (?), AV 4.35 g. +IhS XIS ReX ReGNANTIhm Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing pallium and colobium , raising r. hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in l. Rev. +bASIL’ C COLStAhTI b R Facing crowned bust of Basil, with short beard, on l., wearing loros and Constantine, beardless, on r., wearing chlamys ; both holding long patriarchal cross between them. DO 3b. Sear 1797.
Very fine