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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 8113436, member: 87200&quot;]I just got this one in mail yesterday from [USER=42773]@John Anthony[/USER]...now I have four anonymous folles in my collection, though this is the largest in flan size and weight, approaching a sestertius. I took a photo in the sunshine...</p><p><br /></p><p>BYZANTINE EMPIRE. Time of Basil II and Constantine VIII, 976-1025 - a time when Byzantium was flexing its military muscles...</p><p><br /></p><p>Æ anonymous follis, class A2; 14.9g, 36 mm, 6h, Constantinople mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv.: + EMMANOVHL, facing bust of Christ, wears nimbus cruciger ornamented in each limb of cross, pallium and colobium, Gospels in both hands, to left IC, to right XC;</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev.: + IhSuS / XRISTuS / bASILEu / bASILE (Jesus Christ King of Kings), ornamentation above and below.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ref.: SBCV 1813.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411759[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411760[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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