Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2182. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $335. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. AV Hyperpyron (4.23 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1152-60. 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; five jewels on collar; • on chlamys below tablion. DOC IV 1b.1; SB 1956. Good VF, obverse double-struck; light graffito at edge.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.