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Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180). EL aspron trachy (30mm, 4.49 gm, 6h). Constantinople, 1160-1164. Barred IC - XC, Christ Pantocrator standing facing on low daïs, with cruciform nimbus, wearing pallium and colobium, holding book of Gospels, flanked by two large stars / MANωHΛ O ΘЄΟΔωΡOC, Manuel and St. Theodore standing facing, each holding a sword, both holding between them patriarchal cross set on globus; three pellets on shaft. Sear 1959. DOC 4c. Hendy pl. 13, 9. NGC (photo-certificate) Choice AU 4/5 - 4/5, light graffito.From The Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection. Ex "An Important Private Collection of Byzantine Coins" (Sotheby's New York, 2 November 1998), lot 580.
Estimate: 350-500 USD