309, Lot: 403. Estimate $200. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Michael II the Amorian. 820-829. AR Miliaresion (23mm, 2.09 g, 11h). Constantinople mint. Cross potent set on three steps / + MIXA/ HL ЄC ΘЄЧ/PISτOS bA/ SILЄЧS RO/ MAIOn in five lines. DOC 6 (Michael III); SB 1691 (Michael II). Near EF, toned, minor obverse die breaks.

Based on hoard evidence, Simon Bendall has reassigned this coin from the reign of Michael III to that of Michael II (see S. Bendall, "Miliaresia of the reign of Michael II, AD 820-822," NumCirc 91/2, [March 1983], pp. 42-43).