Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII AD 976-1025. Constantinople
Follis Æ
31mm., 18,16g.
IC-XC to left and right of bust of Christ, facing, with nimbate cross behind head, holding book of gospels, with dot in centre of book's border, two dots in two limbs of the cross, five dots in top limb / IhSUS XRISTUS bASILEU bASILE in four lines, ornament above and below.
very fine
SB 1813.