229, Lot: 490. Estimate $150. Sold for $191. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. EL Aspron Trachy (31mm, 4.19 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1160-1164(?). Christ Pantokrator standing facing on low daïs; stars flanking / Manuel and St. Theodore standing facing, both holding swords and supporting between them a patriarchal cross with one pellet on shaft set on globus. DOC 4.c.2; SB 1959. VF, flan crack.

From the Jörg Müller Collection. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 58 (9 April 1992), lot 1062.