Obverse Image: Portrait busts of Michael with short beard, to his left Theophilius beardless, both are crowned though Michael wears a chlamys and Theophilius wears a loros; between their heads is a cross.
Obverse Text: MIXAHL / S / ΘEOFILOS
Reverse Image: Large M between X / X / X and N / N / N; cross above and theta below.
Eleven circular Turkish weights, marked with dates between 272 and 278 (corresponding to 886-892 C.E.). Cyrus Adler, a Biblical archaeologist with a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University who served as Honorary Curator of the Smithsonian’s Department of Antiquities, collected these in Constantinople, in 1891.
Obverse Image: Portrait bust of Theophilius with short beard, wearing crown and chlamys and holding patriarchal cross and akakia.
Obverse Text: ΘEOFILOS / bASILE
Reverse Image: Portrait busts of Michael II with short beard on the left and Constantine (Theophilius' deceased son) beardless on the right, each wearing crown and chlamys; between their heads is a cross.