133, Lot: 296. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANDRONICUS I, Comnenus. 1183-1185. BI Aspron Trachy (27mm, 4.67 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. MTP- QV, the Virgin standing facing, holding nimbate head of the infant Christ / Standing facing figures of Andronicus, holding labarum and globus cruciger, and Christ, holding book of the Gospels and crowing the emperor. DOC IV 3b; SB 1985. Good VF, brown patina, gray highlights, slight obverse die shift.