Watch List notes:

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, 976-1025. Histamenon (Gold, 24 mm, 4.42 g, 7 h), Constantinopolis, circa 1005-1025. +IҺS XIS RЄX RЄGNANTIҺm Bust of Christ facing, with cross-nimbus with two crescents in upper quarters, wearing tunic and himation, his right hand raised and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. +bASIL C COҺSTANTI b R Crowned half-length busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding long, plain cross between them. DOC 6a. SB 1800. Lustrous and attractive. Minor edge marks, otherwise, extremely fine.


From an old Swiss collection, formed in the early to mid 20th century.