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Manuel I SB1966 group of six hoard found
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Obverse: IC-XC (bar above) in field, Christ bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and colobion, seated upon throne without back; holds gospels in left hand.
Reverse: MAN(monogram)HA AECIIOT or var, MP OV bar above in upper right field, Full-length figure of emperor, bearded on left, crowned by Virgin nimbate. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-peice, and jewelled loros of simplified type; holds in right hand labarum-headed scepter, and in left globus cruciger. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion.
Mint: Constantinople
Date: 1167-1183 CE
Sear 1966
Hoard found group with some silvering intact
28mm/3.1g, 30mm/3.6g, 26mm/2.3g, 29mm/2.2g, 28mm/2.1g, 29mm/2.9g.
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