edge plain (Bull 2465/2462
Some light surface marks and nicks
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and on corresponding part of reverse
Basil I, Gold Solidus edge plain (Bull 2465/2462Basil I, The Macedonian (A. D. 867 886), Gold Solidus. Mint of Constantinople. Christ enthroned facing, wearing a nimbus cruciger, a pallium and colobium, raising His right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels, rev. facing busts of Basil, on left, and Constantine, on right, both crowned and holding between them a patriarchal cross, 4. 37g., 6h (DO 2; S 1704). An exceptional example, perfectly struck and with excellent portraits, good