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# 678 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$400
/ Price Realized: US$600
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Basil II and Constantine VIII. Tetarteron
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Basil II and Constantine VIII. 976-1025 AD. Tetarteron, 4.22gg. (5h). Constantinople, c. 1005-25 AD. Obv: Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing pallium and colobium, holding Book of Gospels with both hands. Rx: +bASIL C CONStAhTI bR Facing crowned bust of Basil, with short beard, on left, wearing loros, and Constantine, beardless, on right, wearing ornamented robe, holding between them long patriarchal cross with X on shaft. Berk 291. DO 15b. Sear 1806. aEF.
Ex Berk 140, 27 October 2004, lot 41.
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