BYZANTINE EMPIRE.Basil I The Macedonian AD 867-886,with associate rulers Constantine Augustus from AD 868 to 879 and Leo VI Augustus from AD 870.AE.Follis.Mint of CONSTANTINOPLE.( 4.41g, 25.2mm, 6h)
LEOh (bASIL S CONST AYGG), facing half length figures of Basil ( in centre ), Leo ( on left ) and Constantin ( right ), basil, crowned, wearing loros and holding akakia in left hand, his sons crowned and wearing chlamys.Reverse.Legend in five lines: +bA(SIL) / COhSTAN / Z S LEOh Eh / ΘΟ bASILS / ROMEON / +Ref:Sear 1712.
Good very fine, green patina, obverse most of legend off centre.trace of an undertype.