Watch List notes:

Romanus II. Solidus; Romanus II; 959-963 AD, Constantinople, Sole Reign, 959 AD. Solidus, 4.40g. Obv: +IhS XPS REX REGNANTIUm Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus decorated with cross (with three pellets in the two horizontal limbs of cross, but only two pellets in the vertical limb), and raising r. hand in benediction; in l. hand, book of Gospels. Rx: CONSTANT CE ROMAN' Aυςς b R Facing busts of Constantine VII, with short beard (on l.) and Romanus II beardless (on r.), both crowned and holding between them long patriarchal cross; Constantine is wearing a loros while his son wears a chlamys. The repunched legend of this issue shows that it must have been produced at the beginning of the reign of Romanus II. The Christ portrait on the obverse is almost certainly by the same engraver who produced the excessively rare portraits of Romanus II alone. This gives collectors a first-time opportunity to acquire an issue of Romanus II which was heretofore not obtainble. F. Fueg, "Dealing with Chance and Probability in Numismatic Research," Revue Suisse de Num. 76, 1997, Anhang IV, B4.
Ex CNG E389, 18 January 2017, lot 849 (Kallman Coll.)
Ex CNG E189, 11 June 2008, lot 235.. Mint State