203, Lot: 500. Estimate $300. Sold for $302. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. AV Hyperpyron (29mm, 4.42 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1167-1183. Facing bust of Christ, beardless, holding scroll and raising hand in benediction; nimbus with five pellets between double-lined cross arms / Manuel standing facing, holding labarum and patriarchal cross on globe, being crowned by manus Dei; nine pellets on collar; pellets on chlamys. DOC 1e.4; SB 1956. EF, flan a little wrinkled, edge scratch.

Ex Tradart (18 November 1993), lot 367.