Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine, 867-886. Solidus (Gold, 20 mm, 4.42 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. +IhS XPS RЄX RЄςNANTIЧM✱ Christ, nimbate, seated facing on throne, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. bASILIOS ЄT COҺSΤAhT'AЧςς b' Crowned facing busts of Basil I, with short beard on the left and wearing loros, and Constantine, beardless on the right and wearing chlamys, holding, with their right hands, a long patriarchal cross between them. DOC 2. SB 1704. Some scratches, otherwise, very fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.