Manuel I Comnenus (AD 1143-1180). AV hyperpyron (30mm, 4.31 gm, 6h). AU, edge crimp. Constantinople, AD 1143-1152. +KERO-HΘEI, facing bust of youthful, beardless Christ, wearing nimbus cruciger with five pellets in each arm, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, scroll in left; barred IC-XC in fields, double border / MA/NΘV/HΛ/ΔЄC/ΠΟ/TH-Tw (ligate)/ΠOP/ΦV/ΓЄ/MNH (ligate)/Tw (ligate), Manuel I standing facing, wearing crown with pendilia, divitision and chlamys with six pellets on fold, labarum in right hand, globus surmounted by patriarchal cross in left; manus Dei in upper field to right, double border. Sear 1956.

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