271, Lot: 133. Estimate $5000. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Michael III "the Drunkard", with Theodora and Thecla. 842-867. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.41 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 842-circa 850. + ӨЄO∂O RA ∂ЄSPVn’ A, facing bust of Theodora, wearing crown with pendilia and loros, and holding cruciform scepter and globus surmounted by patriarchal cross / · mIXAHL S Ө ЄCLA, facing busts of Michael, wearing crown and chlamys and holding globus cruciger, and Thecla, wearing crown with pendilia and loros and holding patriarchal cross. DOC 1d.3; Füeg 1.C.1 (this coin illustrated); SB 1686; Berk 262 (this coin illustrated). VF, light traces of overstriking. Very rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York 7214 (2 November 1998), lot 461.