BZ98863. Bronze anonymous follis, See Lampinen Imitative p. 154 for a similar imitative; for the likely prototype cf. official Byzantine anonymous class A1 folles; SBCV 1793, VF, uneven strike with weak areas, rev. double struck, porous, a few small pits, unofficial (Balkan?) mint, weight 6.090g, maximum diameter 24.8mm, die axis 180
o, c. 970 - 980 A.D.; obverse facing bust of Christ, wears nimbus cruciger ornamented with two pellets in each limb of cross, pallium, and colobium, Gospels in both hands, blundered retrograde imitation of the abbreviation IC - XC (Ihsoús Xristós - Jesus Christ) across field; reverse blundered retrograde inscription imitating: + IhSuS / XRISTuS / bASILEu / bASILE;
rare this crude;
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