Watch List notes:

Nicephorus III Botaniates, 1078-1081. Histamenon (Electrum, 31 mm, 4.43 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. Christ, nimbate, seated facing on backless throne, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left; to left and right, IC - XC. Rev. [+NIKHΦ ΔЄC] Tω ROTANIAT Nicephorus III standing facing, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left. DOC 3. SB 1881. Good very fine.


From a collection formed in the Rhineland from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.