Watch List notes:

THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Michael II the Armorian, 25 December 820 – 2 October 829, with Theophilus from May 821

Solidus 821-829, AV 4.31 g. * – MIX – AHL bASILES Facing bust of Michael, bearded, wearing crown and chlamys and holding cross potent and anexikakia. Rev. ΘEOFI – LO dESPℵ? +E Facing bust of Theophilus, wearing crown and loros, holding globus cruciger and cross-tipped sceptre. DO 3a. Sear 1640.
Rare. Good very fine


Ex Sotheby's New York, 5-6 December 1990, Hunt 642, and Gemini XII, 2015, 457 sales. From the Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection.