Ancients
Manuel I Comnenus (AD 1143-1180). EL aspron trachy (31mm, 4.27 gm, 6h). NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 3/5, edge crimp, light graffito. Constantinople, AD 1160-1164. IC-XC (barred), Christ standing facing on dais, bearded, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left; eight-pointed star to either side / M-AN-ωHΛ-O / ΘЄ/ΟΔ/ω/Ρ/OC, Manuel I, bearded (on left) and St. Theodore, bearded and nimbate (on right) both standing facing, holding patriarchal cross with large globus on base between them, emperor wearing crown, divitision and loros, right hand on pommel of sheathed sword on hip, saint wearing military attire with left hand on pommel of sheathed sword at hip. Sear 1959.
From the Morris Collection
HID02901242017
Estimate: 300-400 USD