Watch List notes:

Romanus IV Diogenes, with Eudocia, Michael VII, Constantius, and Andronicus, 1068-1071. Histamenon (Gold, 27 mm, 4.28 g, 7 h), Constantinopolis. +RωmAN ЄVΔOKIA Three figures standing facing; Christ, nimbate, in center, crowning Romanus on the left and Eudocia on the right, both wearing crown and loros and holding globus cruciger; above, IC - XC. Rev. KωN mX ANΔ Three figures standing on dotted ground line; Michael VII, in center, wearing crown with cross and loros, holding labarum in his right hand and akakia in his left; Constantius, on the left and Andronicus, on the right, both in similar attire and each holding globus cruciger in his right hand and akakia in his left; in exergue, twelve punched decorative circlets. DOC 2. SB 1861. A curious and interesting coin. Very fine.


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

The decorative circlets in the reverse exergue were aooarently punched into the coin after it was struck.