Watch List notes:

Nicephorus III. Stamenon Nomisma; Nicephorus III; 1078-1081 AD. Constantinople, EL Stamenon Nomisma, 4.39g. Berk-335, DO-3b, Sear-1881. Obv: Christ seated facing on throne without back; he wears nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raises r. hand in benediction and holds book of Gospels in l.; on either side of nimbus, IC-XC; double border. Rx: NIKHFP ? TW ROTANIAT, Nicephorus standing facing on footstool, bearded, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum (with X on shaft) and globus cruciger; double border. Ex Gemini II, 11 January 2006, lot 541.Exceptionally well struck. Normally the seated figure of Christ is struck with a flattened and worn die. This die is flawless. MS