Watch List notes:

THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, 6 June 913 – 9 November 959, with colleagues from 914

Solidus circa 949–959, AV 4.15 g. +IhS XPS ReX ReGNANTIVM Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing pallium and colobium, raising r. hand in benediction and holding the Book of Gospels in l. Rev. COnStAht Ce ROmAn' AYGG I R Facing busts of Constantine, with short beard, on l., wearing crown and the loros, and Romanus II, beardless, on r., wearing crown and chlamys, holding long patriarchal cross between them. DO 15. Sear 1751.
Insignificant edge marks, otherwise extremely fine


Ex Gorny and Mosch sale 200, 2011, 3074.