BYZANTINE EMPIRE AV gold tetarteron nomisma circa 977 A.D. Basil II Bulgaroktonos, very rare issue - Ex Bollen & Ex W. H. Hunt collections VF+

An extremely rare tetarteron, apparently the second example known. From the Bollen Collection of Byzantine Coins and from the collection of William Herbert Hunt, Sotheby, 21 June 1991, 104.

Obverse: + IhS XPS RЄX RЄςNANTIhm Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator, wearing tunic, himation and a nimbus cruciger with a pellet in each arm, raising his right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in his left

Reverse: + bASIL' C COnSTAnTI' b' R' On the left, crowned bust of Basil, wearing a loros, and, on the right, crowned bust of Constantine, wearing a chlamys, holding between them, with their right hands, a patriarchal cross

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