334, Lot: 439. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel Comnenus-Ducas. Despot of Thessalonica, 1230-1237. BI Trachy (20mm, 1.14 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Facing bust of Archangel Michael, holding sword and sheath / Manuel and St. Constantine facing, holding patriarchal cross between them. Cf. DOC 6 (larger module); CLCB 13.6.2; SB 2186. Fine, crude as made, with the obverse barely visible and the reverse double struck.

From the Iconodule Collection.