CNG 93, Lot: 1405. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. AV Hyperpyron (28mm, 4.18 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1143-1152(?). Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; five pellets in each limb of nimbus cross / Manuel standing facing, holding labarum and globus surmounted by patriarchal cross, being crowned by manus Dei. DOC 1a; SB 1956. EF, trace of die rust on reverse.