Description: Time of Nicephorus III (1078 - 1081). Anonymous Follis Class I, Constantinople mint. Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, gospels in left hand / Latin cross with X at center and globule and two pellets at each extremity, floral ornaments in lower fields; crescents in upper fields.

Diameter: AE26 mm

Weight: 6,18 g

Grade: VF/VF

Attribution: SBCV 1889

Commentary: brown patina with green deposits, good details, slightly off-center

History: Trying to secure his position as an emperor, Nicephorus III wanted to marry Eudocia Makrembolitissa, the widow of Constantine X and Romanus IV, despite her somehow advanced age of about 60.

Article Number: 052-07-01-41652