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LOT 3110
Byzantine AE Anonymous Follis. Time of Basil II and Constantine VIII, AD 976-1028. Constantinople mint. Class A2.
✠ 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; two dots in each limb of the nimbate cross; IC XC in fields / ✠ IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ЬASILЄЧ ЬASILЄ, legend in four lines across field; ornament above and below. DOC A2.22; SB 1818 (Class A3). Near Very Fine.(16.68gr, 34mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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