Nicephorus II Phocas, with Basil II AD 963-969. Constantinople
Histamenon Nomisma AV
19 mm, 4,16 g
+ IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTIhM, bust of Christ Pantocrator facing, wearing cruciform nimbus, raising right hand in benediction, and holding book of Gospels cradled in left arm / + hICHFOP CЄ ЬASIL' AЧςς Ь R', crowned facing busts of Nicephorus on left, bearded and wearing loros, and Basil, beardless, wearing chlamys pinned at right shoulder, holding long patriarchal cross between.
good very fine
Sear 1776; DOC 1.3.