Watch List notes:

Michael II, the Amorian. 820-829 AD. Solidus, 3.91g (6h). Syracuse. Obv: MI - XAHL b Bust of Michael facing, with short beard, wearing crown and loros, and holding cross potent. Rx: ΘEO - FILOS b Facing bust of Theophilus, beardless, wearing crown and chlamys, and holding globus cruciger. Berk 244. Sear 1645. DO 14b. Small flan but nicely struck. EF

Ex Helianthus annuus Collection. Ex Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection. Ex Stack's, June 1994, lot 2063