969 AD - 976 AD

Ioannes I Tsimisces   Constantinopolis
Imperium Byzantinum
Ιωάννης Α' Τσιμισκής   Κωνσταντινούπολις
Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία
Follis / Φόλλις AE 27
 SHH 968

968 Ioannes I Constantinopolis_Follis_AE


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 8.58 g   25.8-28.4  mm   5:00 o'clock   VF
Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with two pellets in each limb of cross,
pallium and colobium and holding book of gospels,
the cover ornamented with central pellet within square of dots;
to left IC, to right XC with overbars; +EMM[A / NOVHΛ] clockwise around.
IhS[VS] / XRISTVS / BASILE[V] / BASILE in four lines.  
Mint of Constantinopolis..
BMC Anonymous 13/25; Dumbarton Oaks III/2 Anonymous A1; Sear Byzantine 1793