Watch List notes:

Michael VII Ducas, 1071-1078. Histamenon (Gold, 29mm, 4.38 g 6), Constantinople. Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, with cross nimbus, holding book in his left hand and raising his right in benediction; to left and right, IC XC. Rev. +MIX AHΛ RACIΛOΔ Half-length facing bust of Michael VII, wearing loros, crown with cross and pendilia, and holding labarum with pellet on the shaft in his right hand, and globus cruciger in his left. DOC 2d. SB 1868. Toned. Obverse slightly double-struck, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From the Stoecklin Collection, bought from Hirsch in Munich in 1968.