313, Lot: 484. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel Comnenus-Ducas. Despot of Thessalonica, 1230-1237. BI Aspron Trachy (15mm, 0.93 g, 6h). Small module coinage. Michael the Archangel standing facing, holding sword horizontally / Manuel, holding labarum, and St. Demetrius, holding sword, enthroned facing, supporting model of city of Thessalonica between them. DOC 9.6; cf. SB 2183 (for larger module); CLBC 13.9.3. VF, brown patina.

From the Iconodule Collection.