Watch List notes:

Basil II Bulgaroctonos, and Constantine VIII (976-1025), AV Histamenon Nomisma, AD 978-989, Constantinopolis. bust of Christ facing, wearing cruciform nimbus with two pellets in each arm of cross, pallium, and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, and holding book of Gospels cradled in left arm, rev. crowned busts of Basil (left), bearded, wearing loros of lozenge pattern, and Constantine, beardless, wearing chlamys pinned at right shoulder, jointly holding long patriarchal cross between them (Sear 1796; DOC 2), pierced and repaired and subsequently cleaned with resultant surface marks, about very fine.

Estimate: £150 - £250