Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History & Coins

Cross floriate on three steps; pellets flanking / Large B on exergual line; pellets flanking. DOC 20b; Anokhin 377-382; SB 1719. 2.19gr, 17mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Cross floriate on steps; pellets flanking / Large B on exergual line; pellets flanking. DOC 20b; Anokhin 377-382; SB 1719. 1.84gr, 14mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

✠ LЄOꞂ bAS-ILЄVS ROᙏ', facing bust of Leo VI with short beard, wearing chlamys and cross-tipped crown, holding akakia / ✠ LЄOꞂ ЄꞂ ΘЄΟ bASILЄVS ROᙏЄOꞂ in four lines. DOC 8; SB 1729. 7.54gr, 26mm, 6h.

Very Fine.

Ex Parthenon Gallery and Coincraft, London, UK, 1990s-2000s. Property of a North London, UK, private collector.

Large cross floriate on two steps; in fields to left and right, pellet / Large monogram of PധMA. DOC 3a; SB 1775. 3.54gr, 18mm, 1h.

Very Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

[+ ЄMMA]-NOVVHΛ, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with pellet in each limb and empty in each quarter, pallium, and colobium, His right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in His left arm; IC XC (barred) across fields / [+ KΩN] RACIΛЄVC O ΔOVK, bust of Constantine X facing, bearded, wearing loros and crown with pendilia, globus cruciger in right hand, akakia in left. DOC 9; SB 1854. 6.26gr, 28mm, 6h.

Near Very Fine.

Acquired on the German art market before 2000. Private collection, South Germany.

+ ЄMMA-NOVHΛ, three-quarter length bust of Christ Antiphonetes standing facing, raising His right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels with left; IC XC across fields / Large jeweled cross with pellet at each extremity, IC XC NI-KA in its angles. DOC C; SB 1825. 7.11gr, 30mm, 6h.

Very Fine.

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

IC XC, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator / MP ΘV, facing bust of the Theotokos, orans. DOC G.1-28; SB 1867. 6.79gr, 26mm, 7h.

Near Very Fine. Seemingly overstruck.

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

IC to left, XC to right of Christ, nimbate, seated facing on throne with back / IS XS bASILЄ bASIL in three lines, cross between two lines above, crescent between two lines below. DOC Class D; SB 1836. 5.34gr, 25mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine.

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

[✠ ЄMMA-NOVHΛ], nimbate bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, wearing tunic and himation, raising right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in His left; in each limb of the nimbate cross crescent; IC XC in fields / ✠ IҺSЧ[S] XRISTЧ[S] ЬASILЄЧ ЬASILЄ, legend in four lines across field; ornament above and below. Cf. DOC III.2 A45; SB 1818 (Class A3). 5.89gr, 26mm, 4h.

Near Very Fine.

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

IC XC, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; all inside border of large dots / M Θ, half-length facing figure of the Theotokos, orans; all inside border of large dots. DOC K; SB 1901. 5.96gr, 26mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine.

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

IC XC, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; all inside border of large dots / M Θ, half-length facing figure of the Theotokos, orans; all inside border of large dots. DOC K; SB 1901. 5.62gr, 24mm, 6h.

Near Very Fine.

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

IC XC to left and right of bust of Christ, nimbate, facing, His right hand raised, book of gospels in His left / Jewelled cross with globe at each end, set on two steps; wedge in each angle. For another example cf. Numismatik Naumann 119, 822; otherwise unpublished. 7.13gr, 28mm, 5h.

Very Fine. Apparently overstruck on an earlier anonymous follis. Unpublished class.

Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.