Michael VII Ducas (1071-1078). Histamenon Nomisma Scyphate (27 mm, 4.2 g) Constantinople

Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with five pellets in each arm, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left, IC-XC (barred) across fields, double border / +MIX-AHΛ-RACIA-X, bust of Michael VII facing, bearded, wearing crown with pendilia and loros, labarum with pellet on shaft in right hand, globus cruciger in left, double border. Sear 1868. VF+