Basil II Bulgaroktonos, with Constantine VIII, 976-1025. Histamenon (Gold, 19mm, 4.42 g 6), Constantinople, 1005-1025. +IhS XIS REX REGNANTIhM Bust of Christ Pantocrator facing; crescents in upper quarters of nimbus. Rev. +bASIL C CONStANTI b R Crowned half-length busts of Basil, wearing loros, and Constantine, wearing chlamys, holding long, plain cross between them. DOC 6. SB 1800. Attractive and lightly toned. Extremely fine.

From the Stoecklin Collection, acquired by Dr. W. M. Stoecklin in 1979 from Lanz.

This is one of the last coins to have entered into the Stoecklin Collection.