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<p>[QUOTE="Carl Wilmont, post: 7884348, member: 75496"]Interesting information on these coin types. Here's my example:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359864[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anonymous Æ 40 Nummi (28 mm, 10.47 g, 6 h). Time of Basil II (976-1025 AD) and Constantine VIII (1025-1028 AD). Constantinople mint. Circa 976-1028 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>+ ЄMMA (to left) NOVHΛ (to right) <i>(Latinized Hebrew; Emmanuel- “God with us”</i>), facing bust of Christ Pantokrator, wearing nimbus cruciger with five pellets in each limb of cross, pallium, and colobium, holding with both hands book of gospels ornamented with two pellets within a jeweled border, barred IC-XC <i>(Greek abbreviation: Iisoús Xristós - Jesus Christ) </i>across fields, dotted border. / +IҺSЧS XRISTЧ ЬASILЄ[Ч] ЬASILЄ <i>(Greek: Jesus Christ King of Kings) </i>in four lines, ornaments above and below, dotted border.</p><p><br /></p><p>DOC Class A2; Sear 1818 (Class A3)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Carl Wilmont, post: 7884348, member: 75496"]Interesting information on these coin types. Here's my example: [ATTACH=full]1359864[/ATTACH] Anonymous Æ 40 Nummi (28 mm, 10.47 g, 6 h). Time of Basil II (976-1025 AD) and Constantine VIII (1025-1028 AD). Constantinople mint. Circa 976-1028 AD. + ЄMMA (to left) NOVHΛ (to right) [I](Latinized Hebrew; Emmanuel- “God with us”[/I]), facing bust of Christ Pantokrator, wearing nimbus cruciger with five pellets in each limb of cross, pallium, and colobium, holding with both hands book of gospels ornamented with two pellets within a jeweled border, barred IC-XC [I](Greek abbreviation: Iisoús Xristós - Jesus Christ) [/I]across fields, dotted border. / +IҺSЧS XRISTЧ ЬASILЄ[Ч] ЬASILЄ [I](Greek: Jesus Christ King of Kings) [/I]in four lines, ornaments above and below, dotted border. DOC Class A2; Sear 1818 (Class A3)[/QUOTE]
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