Watch List notes:

Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine VII, 867-886. Solidus (Gold, 19 mm, 4.47 g, 7 h), Constantinople, 868-879. +IҺS XRS REX REGNANTIЧM* Christ, nimbate, seated facing, wearing chiton, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of gospels in his left. Rev. bASILIOS ET CONSTANT AVGG b' Crowned facing busts of Basil, with short beard and loros, and Constantine, beardless and wearing chlamys; holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC 2. SB 1704. Very fine.

From the collection of W. F. Stoecklin, Amriswil, Switzerland, acquired from a Hirsch auction in 1968.