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LOT 3793
Byzantine AE Anonymous Follis. Time of Basil II and Constantine VIII, circa AD 976-1065. Constantinople mint.
✠ 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 two dots; IC XC in fields / ✠ IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ЬASILЄЧ ЬASILЄ, legend in four lines across field; ornament above and below. DOC A2; SB 1818 (Class A3). Good Very Fine.(9.23gr, 26mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Acquired from Romanorum, March 2015, collector's ticket included.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 114, 23 November 2023, lot 1546.
Property of a London antiquarian.
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