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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2279654, member: 56859&quot;]Okay <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have a half-dozen or so Byzantine Christ coins.&nbsp; Here are a couple more:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_2a5ba20c5b2f4adcaa15615cb20806dc.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_495,q_75/ae43f8_2a5ba20c5b2f4adcaa15615cb20806dc.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>Basil II and Constantine VIII, CE 976-1028</b></p><p>Class A3 anonymous AE follis, 26 mm, 8.0 gm</p><p>Obv: (letters left), bust of Christ, facing, with nimbate cross behind head, holding book of gospels, sometimes with dots in centre of book&#039;s border, crescent in each limb of the cross</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; +IhSUS XRISTUS bASILEU bASILE in four lines, ornament below</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; SB 1818</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_430ca2e0cd534e848a7ef3cea57e61e8.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_511,q_75/ae43f8_430ca2e0cd534e848a7ef3cea57e61e8.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>Romanus IV, CE 1068-1071</b></p><p>AE follis, 10.57 gm</p><p>Constantinople</p><p>Obv: IC-XC over NI-KA to left and right of bust of Christ facing, dotted cross behind head, wearing pallium and colobium, holding book of Gospels with both hands</p><p>Rev: C-R P-Δ in the four angles of a cross with globe and two dots at each extremity, X in the centre. </p><p>Ref: Sear 1866, DO-8</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]455435[/ATTACH] </p><p>Constantine IX</p><p>Class D anonymous follis, 1042-1055 AD</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; IC to left, XC to right of Christ, nimbate, seated facing on throne with back, holding book of Gospels in both hands</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; bAS-ILE bAS-ILE in three lines</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; SB 1836.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]455436[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Romanus IV, CE 1068-1071</b></p><p>AE follis (haven&#039;t weighed and measured it yet)</p><p>Constantinople</p><p>Obv: IC-XC over NI-KA to left and right of bust of Christ facing, dotted cross behind head, wearing pallium and colobium, holding book of Gospels with both hands</p><p>Rev: C-R P-Δ in the four angles of a cross with globe and two dots at each extremity, X in the centre. </p><p>Ref: Sear 1866, DO-8</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many things to study about these coins (the undertype for those which were overstruck, for instance) but I just haven&#039;t become interested.&nbsp; I&#039;m thinking about selling all or most of my Byzantines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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