445, Lot: 540. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. EL Aspron Trachy (31mm, 4.61 g, 6h). 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 and both holding a patriarchal cross set on globus between them; pellet on shaft of patriarchal cross. DOC 4c; SB 1959. Near EF, lightly toned, thin flan crack, a few scratches.
Ex Tkalec (9 May 2005), lot 428.