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Auction: 4026 - Ancient, English and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 92

Basil I, the Macedonian and Constantine (A.D. 868-879), AV Solidus, 4.41g., Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, and holding Gospels, + ihs xps rex regnatium followed by star, rev. basilios et constant augg b, facing busts of Basil, on left, wearing loros, and Constantine, on right, wearing chlamys, each wearing crown, holding between them a patriarchal cross (S 1704; DO 2), traces of mounting on edge, almost very fine Estimate £ 140-180

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