Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, AV Histamenon Nomisma. (26mm, 4.4 g) Constantinople, AD 1005-1025. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTINM, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; crescents in upper quarters of nimbus / +bASIL C CONSTANTIN b R, crowned half-length busts of Basil, wearing loros and being crowned from above by manus Dei, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding long cross between them