558 BYSANTINSKA MYNT / BYZANTINE COINS. NICEPHORUS II, PHOCAS (A.D. 963-969). AV histamenon nomisma

BYSANTINSKA MYNT / BYZANTINE COINS. NICEPHORUS II, PHOCAS (A.D. 963-969). AV histamenon nomisma. +IHS XPS REX REGNANTINM, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus crociger, pallium and colobium, and raising right hand in benediction, in left hand, book of Gospels)(NICHFOP´ CE BASIL´ AVGG B R, facing busts of Nicephorus on left and Basil on right, both crowned and holding between them long patriarchal cross. SB 1776. 4,33 g.