Watch List notes:

THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Nicephorus II Phocas, 15 August 963 – 10 December 969, with Basil II and Constantine VIII

Histamenon 963-969, AV 4.40 g. + IhS XPS ReX ReGNANTIYM Bust of Christ facing, with decorated nimbus, wearing pallium and colobium, raising r. hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in l. Rev. NICHΦOR'KA bASIΛ AYΓ RP Busts facing of Nicephorus II, with short beard, on l., wearing crown and loros, and Basil II, beardless on r., wearing crown and chlamys, holding long patriarchal cross with globus on shaft between them. DO 2. Sear 1777.
Rare. About extremely fine