Attributed to Constantine IX Monomachus AD 1042-1055. Constantinople
Follis Æ

28 mm., 9,60 g.

+ ЄMMA-NOVHΛ, nimbate bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing tunic and himation, raising right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in His left, rays and dots around central annulet on Gospels, in each limb of the nimbate cross X with dots, IC XC in fields / + IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ЬASILЄЧ ЬASILЄ, legend in four lines across field, ornament [above] and below.

very fine

DOC III Class A2.41; Sear 1818.