Watch List notes:

Nicephorus I AV Solidus. Syracuse, AD 802-803. ҺICIFOROS ЬAS, crowned facing bust of Nicephorus, wearing chlamys, holding cross potent and akakia / IhSЧS XRIS ƮЧS ҺICA X, cross potent on base, set on two steps; C-I across fields. BCI 820b (this coin) corr. (rev. legend); unpublished elsewhere. 3.88g, 19mm, 6h.

Mint State. Extremely Rare.

This coin published in D'Andrea, Costantini & Ranalli, Byzantine coinage in Italy (Acquaviva Picena, 2017);
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 75, 18 November 2013, lot 696 (hammer: 10,000 CHF).