188, Lot: 416. Estimate $300. Sold for $385. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. AV Hyperpyron (28mm, 4.35 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; eight pellets on collar; pellet on chlamys below tablion. DOC IV 1e.3; SB 1956. Good VF, light scratches.