Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1215. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. AV Hyperpyron (4.31 g, 5h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1167-1183. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; quincunx in arms of cross / Manuel standing facing, holding labarum and patriarchal globus; nine jewels on collar, two pellets on labarum shaft; manus Dei above. DOC 1e; SB 1956. EF, minor graffiti on reverse.

From the Norman Frank Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 1700.