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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheRed, post: 2848242, member: 87080&quot;]Great coins everyone. Basil II Bulgaroktonos is my favorite Byzantine emperor, and have always thought of it as one of the empire&#039;s misfortunes that he never had any children. They couldn&#039;t have done any worse than the last of the Macedonian dynasty. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have one folles of Basil II that I can find a picture of. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]675451[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Basil II Bulgaroktonos </b>AE Anonymous Follis, Class A2, Constantinople mint, 10 Jan 976 - 15 Dec 1025 A.D.; 15.589g, 35.1mm, die axis180o,</p><p><b>Obv</b>: + EMMANOVHL, facing bust of Christ, wears nimbus cruciger ornamented in each limb ofcross, pallium, and colobium, Gospels in both hands, to left IC, to right XC.</p><p><b>Rev</b>: + IhSuS / XRISTuS / bASILEu / bASILE (Jesus Christ King of Kings), ornamentation above and below legend.</p><p>SDCV 1813[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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