CNG 94, Lot: 1528. Estimate $300. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. EL Aspron Trachy (29mm, 4.16 g, 6h). Third coinage (?). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1160-1164. Christ Pantokrator standing facing on low daïs; stars flanking / Manuel and St. Theodore standing facing, each holding a sword, both holding between them patriarchal cross set on globus; one pellet on shaft. DOC 4c; SB 1959. Good VF, toned, faint graffito ‘*’ on obverse and reverse.

From the Sasha Collection.