THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Manuel I, Comnenus 8 April 1143 – 24 September 1180
Aspron trachy, 1164-1167 (?), AR 4.21 g. O / EM / MA – N_ / HL Facing bust of Christ Emmanuel, nimbate, wearing pallium and colobium and raising r. hand in benediction and holding scroll in l.; in field, IC – XC. Rev. MN/_V/HΛ / ΔΕC/ΠΟT/HC – OΠ/ΦV/POΓ/NN/T Manuel standing facing, wearing crown, divitision and chlamys and holding labarum and anexikakia; in upper r. field, Manus Dei . DO 5a. Sear 1960.
Rare. About extremely fine