Manuel I Comnenus (AD 1143-1180). EL aspron trachy (30mm, 4.23 gm, 5h). NGC MS 4/5 - 5/5, die shift. Constantinople, AD 1160-1164. IC-XC (barred), Christ standing facing on dais, bearded, wearing nimbus cruciger with single pellet in limbs, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left; eight-pointed star to either side / M-AN-ΩHΛ-O / ΘЄ/Ο/Δ/Ω/Ρ/OC, Manuel I, bearded (on left) and St. Theodore, bearded and nimbate (on right), both standing facing, jointly holding patriarchal cross with two crossbars on shaft and 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

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