374, Lot: 622. Estimate $150. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. EL Aspron Trachy (33mm, 4.40 g, 6h). First coinage. Constantinople mint. Struck 1143-circa 1152. Facing bust of Christ Emmanuel; barred IC - XC across field / Manuel standing facing, holding labarum and akakia, and being crowned and blessed by the Virgin Mary to right; six pellets in loros end. DOC 2b; SB 1957. EF, large flan crack, fragile.