188, Lot: 415. Estimate $200. Sold for $430. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. AV Hyperpyron (33mm, 4.30 g). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1167-1183. Facing bust of Christ, beardless, holding scroll and raising hand in benediction; nimbus with double-lined cross arms each with five pellets / Manuel standing facing, holding labarum and patriarchal cross on globe, being crowned by manus Dei; six pellets on collar; pellet on chlamys below tablion. DOC IV 1a.1; SB 1956. VF, large flan, bent and straightened.