Watch List notes:

Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine, 867-886. Solidus (Gold, 20 mm, 4.42 g, 7 h), Constantinopolis, circa 871-886. +IҺS XRS RЄX RЄGNANTIЧM✱ Christ, nimbate, seated facing, wearing chiton, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. bASILIOS ЄT COҺSTAҺT' AЧGG' 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. Good extremely fine.


From an old Swiss collection, formed in the early to mid 20th century, and from the R.P. Collection, Münzen & Medaillen XII, 11-13 June 1953, 946.