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21 February 2021
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Starting Price: 500 CHF
Hammer Price:  1200 CHF
Lot 901

Nicephorus II Phocas, with Basil II, 963-969. Histamenon nomisma (Gold, 22 mm, 4.36 g, 6 h), Constantinople, 963-964. +IhS XPS REX REGNANTIhm Facing bust of Christ Pantocrator, wearing tunic, himation and a cross nimbus with two pellets on the upper arm and three in the others, raising right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in his left. Rev. NICHFOP' CE bASIL' AVςς I R' Crowned facing busts of Nicephorus II, bearded and wearing loros on the left, and Basil II, beardless and wearing chlamys on the right; both holding, between them with their right hands, a long patriarchal cross, set on globe. DOC 1. Füeg 1. SB 1776. Good very fine.

From the Trausnitz Collection, ex Lanz 38, 24 November 1986, 1026.

Online bidding closes: 21 Feb 2021, 22:30:30 CET Current Date & Time: 8 May 2024, 13:34:11 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:1200 CHF by Wolf4572 (9 bids)
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