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Manuel I
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Billon Aspron Trachy
Constantinople mint, 1143-1180 A.D.
4.58g, 30mm
BCV- 1966
Obverse:
IC XC
Christ, bearded, seated facing on throne without back, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, in left, book of gospels.
Reverse:
M above
MANUHL ΔECΠOT
ΘV in right field
The Virgin, nimbate (on right) and Manuel (on left), both standing facing; the Virgin wears pallium and maphorium, and with Her right hand crowns the emperor, who wears divitision and loros. And holds laborum and globus.
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