271, Lot: 130. Estimate $15000. Sold for $23000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Michael II the Amorian. 820-829. AV Solidus (19mm, 4.42 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 820/1-822. * mIX AHL ЬASILЄЧ’, crowned facing bust, wearing slight beard and chlamys, and holding akakia and cross potent / mIXAH L ЬASILЄЧ’ Є, crowned facing bust, wearing slight beard and loros, and holding cruciform scepter and globus cruciger. DOC 1 (same obv. die); Füeg 1.A (same dies as illustration); SB 1639. EF, a few minor marks. Extremely rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 431; William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s New York 6055, 5 December 1990), lot 640.