★ An attractive silver scyphate ★
Michael VII Doukas AD 1071-1078. Constantinople
Scyphate AR
31mm., 4,25g.
Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; across field, IC XC / + MIX-AHΛ bACIΛEωC, crowned facing bust, wearing loros, holding labarum with pellet on shaft and globus cruciger.
good very fine
Cf. DOC 2a (gold histamenon nomisma); cf. Sear 1868 (gold histamenon nomisma) From The tareq Hani collection