Watch List notes:

Anonymous Folles, time of Basil II & Constantine VIII, circa 976-1025. Follis (Bronze, 28 mm, 11.69 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. +ЄM[MANOV]HΛ Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left; in fields, IC - XC. Rev. +IҺSЧS / XRISTЧS / bASILЄЧ / bΑSILЄ in four lines; above and below, floral ornament. DOC Class A2.39. SB 1813. Minor weakness on the obverse, otherwise, extremely fine.


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