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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 3353025, member: 36818&quot;]I finally had some time to try to attribute this. Here&#039;s what I&#039;ve got, thanks to great information provided by [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] on his website :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]887676[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Michael IV, the Paphlagonian</b>; 1034–41 CE (in Grierson’s <i>DOC</i>, dated 1042(?)–50, Constantine IX, 1042–55). Æ, anonymous follis Class C, Constantinople mint. 31mm, 8.49g, 6h. Class C. DO C .1-38, SBCV 1825. Obv: + EMMA–NOVHΛ; three-quarter length figure of Christ standing facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right in benediction, Gospels in left, IC–XC in field. Rev: jeweled cross with pellet at each extremity, in the angles IC–XC / NI–KA (May Jesus Christ Conquer).</p><p><br /></p><p>Overstruck on Class B. The cross on the reverse of Class B is rotated on the reverse of this coin, with the crossbar and top line of the legend near the edge of the flan at two o’clock, and a step visible at eight o’clock.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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