Watch List notes:

Nicephorus II Phocas AV Histamenon Nomisma. Constantinople, AD 967-969. ⧾ IҺS XPS RЄX RЄϚNANTȠ'ᙏ, facing bust of Christ Pantokrator / ⧾ ΘЄOTOC' b' HΘ' ҺICHF, ∂ЄSP, half-length facing busts of the Virgin, nimbate, wearing stola and maphorium, and Nicephorus, wearing crown and loros, holding patriarchal cross between them; M-Θ either side of Virgin. Füeg 3.C.1; DOC 4; Sear 1778. 4.44g, 22mm, 6h.

Mint State; rev. edge marks.

Acquired from Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger.