Watch List notes:

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII. 976-1025. AV Histamenon Nomisma (20mm, 4.40 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 989-1001. + IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNΛNTIhm, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; bars of nimbus with pellets at outer ends / + bASIL, C COhSτAhτIIbRm, crowned half-length busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross crosslet between them. DOC 3h var. (pellet on shaft); Füeg 3.AA; SB 1797. Lightly toned, minor doubling on reverse. Near EF.

From the Peter J. Merani Collection. Ex Berk BBS 165 (28 July 2009), lot 50; Berk BBS 35 (12 February 1985), lot 61.