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The Byzantine Empire. Manuel I, Comnenus 1143 – 1180.
Aspron trachy, Thessalonica (?) 1143-1152 (?), EL 2.56 g. Facing bust of Christ Emmanuel with decorated nimbus, pallium and colobium, raising r. hand in benediction and holding scroll in l. Rev. Manuel standing on l., wearing crown and loros and holding labarum and anexikakia crowned by the Virgin on r., nimbate and wearing tunic and maphorium. DO 2b (Constantinopolis). Sear 1972.
Edge clipped, otherwise about very fine
Ex NAC sale 78, 2014, 2509.
*** This coin was clipped by hammering out the edges so that it expanded and became much larger. It was then clipped down to its original size and this has resulted in the lack of detail of the outer parts of the design, the extreme thinness of the edge and the low weight, about half that of the original. (Ref. S. Bendall and D. Sellwood, "Clipped twelfth century Byzantine electrum trachaea", Numismatics-Witness to History, IAPN Publication No. 8, 1986, pp. 97-99).
Aspron trachy, Thessalonica (?) 1143-1152 (?), EL 2.56 g. Facing bust of Christ Emmanuel with decorated nimbus, pallium and colobium, raising r. hand in benediction and holding scroll in l. Rev. Manuel standing on l., wearing crown and loros and holding labarum and anexikakia crowned by the Virgin on r., nimbate and wearing tunic and maphorium. DO 2b (Constantinopolis). Sear 1972.
Edge clipped, otherwise about very fine
Ex NAC sale 78, 2014, 2509.
*** This coin was clipped by hammering out the edges so that it expanded and became much larger. It was then clipped down to its original size and this has resulted in the lack of detail of the outer parts of the design, the extreme thinness of the edge and the low weight, about half that of the original. (Ref. S. Bendall and D. Sellwood, "Clipped twelfth century Byzantine electrum trachaea", Numismatics-Witness to History, IAPN Publication No. 8, 1986, pp. 97-99).