Description:
Obverse: Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator, holding book in left hand and making blessing gesture with right; +IhC (C is retrograde) XI REX REGNANTIhM
Reverse: Crowned half-length facing busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine VIII, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between them; +bASIL C COnSTAnTI b R

Tags:
ancient; archaeology

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