Anonymous Follis – Class B (time of Romanus III Argyrus)

Byzantine Empire, Constantinople mint, AD 1028–1034 

• Obverse: + EMMANOVHL, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, holding Book of Gospels; IC – XC in fields 

• Reverse: IS XS / bASILЄ / bASILЄ in three lines, cross above on three steps 

• Reference: Sear Byzantine 1823 (SB 1823); DOC III Class B