TYPE Byzantine Empire, Basil II Bulgaroktonos (976-1025 AD), bronze anonymous follis, class A2, 13.27g DESCRIPTION . Obv: Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus and holding Book of Gospels, legend IC XC (Greek denoting Jesus Christ) Rev: Greek legend +IISUS HRISTUS BASILEU BASILE ("Jesus Christ King of Kings") in four lines REFERENCE: SB 1813 GRADING: VF+, even brown patina, slight nose scratch ORDER INFO: B2375, $90 Attractive flan, even patina and nice detail (but for slightest nose scratch) - also well centered and struck with no typical doubling. Though often glibly listed as such in sales catalogs, true A2 anonymous types (see Sear or Metcalf for a definition and discussion on this) - as opposed to the much more common, smaller A3 types - are not that easy to come by, particularly in nice shape.