Watch List notes:

Byzantium, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and Romanus II (945-963), AV Solidus, AD 950-955, Constantinopolis, half length bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with three pellets in each limb, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left; single border, rev. crowned facing busts of Constantine VII on left, bearded, wearing loros, and Romanus II on right, wearing chlamys pinned at right shoulder, jointly holding patriarchal cross with globular terminus between them, 4.34g, 6h (Sear 1751), lightly cleaned and rubbed, a bold fine.

Estimate: £240 - £300