Watch List notes:

THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Basil II Bulgaroctonos, 11 January 976 – 15 December 1025, with Constantine VIII, co-emperor throughout the reign

Histamenon circa 977-989 (?), AV 4.34 g. +IHS NIS REN REGNANTIhM Facing bust of Christ nimbate, wearing pallium and colobium, raising r. hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in l. Rev. +bASIL C COhSTAhTI b R Facing crowned busts of Basil, on l. and Constantine, on r., wearing loros and chlamys respectively and both holding long, globe tipped, patriarchal cross between them; ^ on shaft. DO 2g. Sear 1796.
Traces of double striking, otherwise extremely fine


Ex Künker sale 204, 2012, 985.