Watch List notes:

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, 976-1025. Histamenon (Gold, 27 mm, 4.42 g, 7 h), Constantinople, 1019-1025. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTIhM Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing; crescents in upper quarters of nimbus. Rev. +bASIL C CONStANTI bR Crowned half-length busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding long, plain cross between them. DOC 6a. SB 1800. Very attractive, clear and lightly toned; on a spread flan. Extremely fine.
From a European collection, formed before 2005.