Watch List notes:

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (25mm, 4.40 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1005-1025. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; annulets in upper quarters of nimbus / Crowned half-length busts of Basil, wearing loros and being crowned from above by manus Dei, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding long cross between them. DOC 6a; cf. Füeg II 6.D-E/6.B (for obv./rev.); SB 1800. Lustrous, a couple light scratches in margin on reverse. EF.


From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Berk BBS 29 (15 December 1983), lot 43.