Byzantine
Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180 AD) Constantinople
BI trachy (28.3mm, 2.88g)
Obv: Christ, bearded, seated on throne, wearing nimbus, pallium and colobion; raising right hand in benediction, holds book of Gospels in left hand, star in left and right field; IC-XC in fields.
Rev: MANOVHΛ ΔECΠOT, The Virgin, nimbate, and Manuel, both standing facing; the Virgin wears pallium and maphorium and crowns the emperor who wears divitision and loros, holding labarum and globus cruciger.
SBV 1966; DOC 13f.