Watch List notes:

Basil I the Macedonian, 867-886. Follis (Bronze, 24 mm, 5.49 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis, 879-886. + bASILIOS bASILЄVS ✱ Basil I, seated facing on lyre-backed throne, wearing crown surmounted by a cross and loros, holding labarum in his right hand and akakia in his left. Rev. + ЬASIL/IOS ЄҺ ӨЄO/ ЬASILЄVS / ROmЄOҺ in four lines. DOC 12. SB 1709. Good very fine.


From the Nea Rhomē Collection, formed in the early 2000s.