398, Lot: 663. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel Comnenus-Ducas. Despot of Thessalonica, 1230-1237. BI Trachy (25mm, 2.05 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Facing bust of St. Michael the Archangel, holding sword / Manuel and St. Constantine standing facing, each holding [palm branch] and supporting between them a patriarchal cross. DOC 6; SB 2180. VF, dark brown to black patina with touches of red, flan split, smoothed and tooled.

From the Iconodule Collection.