One (1) solidus (histamenon nomisma) coin, Basil II Bulgaroktonos
Byzantine Empire, 976-1025
Obverse Image: Portrait bust of Christ wearing nimbus cross ornamented with rosette of pellets, pallium and colobium; raising right hand in benediction and in left hand holds the book of Gospels; all encased in triple border.
Obverse Text: IhS / XIS / REX / REGNANTINM
Reverse Image: Portrait busts of Basil on left with short beard wearing loros of square pattern, and Constantine VIII on right, beardless wearing a jeweled chlamys; both brothers are crowned and hold between them a long patriarchal cross crosslet and with the manus Dei above Basil's head; all encased in triple border.
Reverse Text: bASIL / C / CONSTANT / b / R