Watch List notes:

Nicephorus III Botaniates, 1078-1081. Hyperpyron (Electrum, 29 mm, 4.38 g, 7 h), Constantinopolis. Christ seated facing on throne without back, nimbate, wearing pallium and colobium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. + NIKHΦ ΔЄC Tω ROTANIAT H Nicephorus III standing facing on footstool, bearded, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum with his right hand and globus cruciger in his left. DOC 3b. SB 1881. Very fine.


From an old Swiss collection, formed in the 1970s to 1990s.