CNG 90, Lot: 1962. Estimate $500. Sold for $606. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. EL Aspron Trachy (35mm, 4.23 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1152-1160. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator / The Theotokos standing facing, crowning Manuel to left, holding labarum and akakia. DOC 1b; SB 1957; Berk, Roman 352 (this coin). Near EF, minor die shift.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s New York (2 November 1998), lot 577.