333, Lot: 413. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel Comnenus-Ducas. Despot of Thessalonica, 1230-1237. BI Trachy (17mm, 1.44 g, 7h). Thessalonica mint. Facing bust of the Virgin Mary, orans; stars flanking / Emperor, holding cruciform scepter, and St. Demetrius, holding globus surmounted by patriarchal cross and spear, standing facing. DOC 5; CLBC 13.5.1 (R3); SB 2179. Near VF, flatly struck in center of obverse.