Watch List notes:

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, AV Histamenon Nomisma. Constantinople, AD 1005-1025. + IҺS XIS REX REGNANTIҺM, bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus with crescents in upper quarters, pallium, and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, codex in left hand / + bASIL C COҺSTAҺ TIb R, crowned half-length busts of Basil, wearing loros and being crowned from above by manus Dei, and Constantine, wearing jewelled chlamys, holding long cross between them. Sear 1800; DOC 6a. 4.41g, 25mm, 7h.

Good Very Fine; scrape to obv.

From the collection of Z.P., Austria;
Purchased from Monete Franchino, Milan, Italy.