Auction: 12026 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 490
Basil II and Constantine VIII (976-1025), Histamenon, 4.42g, Constantinople, facing bust of Christ, wearing nimbus cross, right hand raised in benediction, left holding book of Gospels, rev. crowned facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding between them a patriarchal cross (Sear 1800; DOC 6), about extremely fine
Sold for
£580
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