Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2180. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. AV Hyperpyron (4.38 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1143-1152. Facing bust of Christ, beardless, raising hand in benediction and holding scroll; nimbus with double-lined cross arms, five pellets in cross arms / Manuel standing facing, being crowned by manus Dei, holding labarum and patriarchal cross on globe; six jewels on collar; S on chlamys below tablion. DOC IV 1b.6 var. (five jewels); SB 1956. Good VF, slightly wavy.