Anonymous (attributed to sole reign of Constantine VIII and also to the last few
years of Basil II), AE Follis, Class A3, 1081-1092
+EMMA_NOVVHL, IC | XC across fields
Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with box pattern in each limb and empty in each quarter, pallium and colobium,
book of Gospels in both hands
+IhSUS / XRISTUS / bASILEU / bASILE (entirely retrograde)
Legend in four lines, rosette with two petals below
25mm x 28mm, 7.97g