Exceptional Michael II
Ex Hunt Collection

CNG 102, Lot: 1178. Estimate $20000. Sold for $18000. 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 ЬASILЄ’, crowned and draped bust facing, holding cross potent and akakia / mIXAH-L ЬASILЄЧ’ Є, crowned bust facing, wearing loros, holding globus cruciger and cruciform scepter. DOC 1 (same obv. die); Füeg 1.A (this coin illustrated); 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.