Watch List notes:

Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, 976-1025. Histamenon nomisma (Gold, 23 mm, 4.34 g, 7 h), Constantinople, 989-1001. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTIhM Bust of Christ Pantocrator facing, wearing cross nimbus with a cross of five pellets in each arm, right hand raised in blessing, left holding book. Rev. +bASIL C CONStANTI b On left, crowned bust of Basil II facing, wearing chlamys; on right, crowned bust of Constantine VIII, wearing ornamented robe; holding between them a long patriarchal cross crosslet. DOC (3ff). SB 1797. Very rare with five pellets in each arm of the cross nimbus. A few light scratches, otherwise, very fine.

From the Trausnitz Collection, acquired prior to 2007.

The authors of DOC record just a single known example with five pellets in the arms of the nimbus, which was from a Vinchon sale of 1964.