Watch List notes:

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, 976-1025. Miliaresion (Silver, 29 mm, 2.94 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis, 989-1025. ЄҺ TOVTω ҺICAT' - baSILЄI C CωҺST' Cross crosslet, with X at centre and pellet within crescent on shaft; beneath, globus on four steps; in field to left, facing bust of Basil, with short beard, wearing crown and loros; to right, facing bust of Constantine, beardless, wearing crown and chlamys. Rev. + bASIL' / C CωnSTAn' / ΠORFVROς' / ΠISTV bAS' / RωmAIω' in five lines; above and below, ornaments. DOC 20a. SB 1812. Minor areas of weakness, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.


From a German collection of late Byzantine silver coins, formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s.