Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2186. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $305. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manuel I Comnenus. 1143-1180. AV Hyperpyron (4.39 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1167-1183. 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 with two pellets on shaft and patriarchal cross on globe; nine jewels on collar. Cf. DOC IV 1e; SB 1956. Good VF, graffito “x” on reverse.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.