249, Lot: 383. Estimate $150. Sold for $315. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. EL Aspron Trachy (35mm, 4.34 g, 7h). Constantinople mint. Second coinage, 1152-1167(?). Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing / Manuel and the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) standing facing, holding patriarchal cross on small globe between them. DOC 3b; SB 1958. Good VF, toned, graffito (‘X’) on obverse.