Basil II and Constantine VIII. AD 976-1025. AR Miliaresion, 29 mm, 2.62 g. Constantinople. 

EN tOVtw NICAt bASILEI C CwnStw, Cross crosslet, with X at centre and dot in crescent on shaft, on globe above four 
steps; to left and right, crowned facing busts of Basil, 
with short beard, wearing loros, on left, and Constantine, 
beardless, wearing chlamys, on right, triple border.
+bASILI S CwNSTAN PORFVROS PISTV bAS RwMAIW in five lines, 
always with Theta (dot in circle) above and below, all within triple border.

Sear 1812; DOC 20; BMC 14-15.

With permission of Tkalec auction May 2011, lot 284