Watch List notes:

Nicephorus II Phocas, with Basil II, 963-969. Histamenon nomisma (Gold, 22 mm, 4.36 g, 6 h), Constantinople, 963-964. +IhS XPS REX REGNANTIhm Facing bust of Christ Pantocrator, wearing tunic, himation and a cross nimbus with two pellets on the upper arm and three in the others, raising right hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in his left. Rev. NICHFOP' CE bASIL' AVςς I R' Crowned facing busts of Nicephorus II, bearded and wearing loros on the left, and Basil II, beardless and wearing chlamys on the right; both holding, between them with their right hands, a long patriarchal cross, set on globe. DOC 1. Füeg 1. SB 1776. Good very fine.

From the Trausnitz Collection, ex Lanz 38, 24 November 1986, 1026.