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Basil II

State: Byzantium
Mint: Constantinople
uid: 2712
Obverse: +bASIL C COnSτAnT' b R(or similar),facing busts of emperor Basil II left, with short beard wearing loros of square pattern, and Constantine VIII right, wearing chlamys, both rulers are with stemmas, decorated with crosses, holding patriarchal cross between them, the senior emperor is holding  it higher
Reverse: +IhS XIS RªX RªςNANTInM(or similar), facing bust of Christ, with nimbus with cross(with 1 or 2 pellets in the limbs of cross), beard and moustache, wearing pallium and colobium, holding Gospel in His left and blessing with His raised right hand
nominal value: gold histamenon nomisma
Description: Different examples varied from small thick to broad and thin flans  
Date added: 2011-12-16 08:49:10    Hits: 244
                 
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