Period
Byzantine
Person
Basil II, Byzantine emperor, 976-1025, Constantine VIII, Byzantine emperor, 976-1028
Mint
Constantinople (Byzantine)
Denom.
histamenon
Dating
1005-1025
Obverse
+IhSИISREXREGNΛNTIhM, Bust of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and himation; right hand raised in blessing, left clasps Gospels to breast
Reverse
+bASILCCONSTΛNTIbR, Busts of Basil II and Constantine VIII, holding cross between them. Basil is bearded, and wears crown with cross and prependoulia, imperial tunic, and loros; Constantine is beardless, and wears crown with cross and prependoulia, imperial tunic, and chlamys decorated with tablion and fastened with brooch from which three pendants hang
