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333, Lot: 405. Estimate $200.
Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Michael II the Amorian. 820-829. AR Miliaresion (22mm, 2.19 g, 12h). Constantinople mint. Cross potent set on three steps / + MIXA/HL ЄC ΘЄЧ/PISτOS ЬA/SILЄЧS RO/MAIOҺ in five lines. DOC 6 (Michael III); SB 1691 (Michael III). Good VF.


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