Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII AD 976-1025. Struck AD 1005-1025. Constantinople
Histamenon Nomisma AV

22mm., 4,40g.

+ bASIL Є COhStAhTIh R, crowned facing busts of Basil, bearded, wearing loros of square pattern and being crowned from above by Manus Dei, and Constantine, beardless, wearing jeweled chlamys pinned at right shoulder, holding long cross between them / + IhS XIS RЄX RЄgNANτIhM, bust of Christ Pantocrator facing, wearing cruciform nimbus with annulets in upper quarters, pallium, and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, and holding book of Gospels cradled in left arm.

good very fine

DOC 6a; Sear 1800.