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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Comnen Dynasty| > |Manuel I| > BZ45637
Byzantine Empire, Manuel I Comnenus, 8 April 1143 - 24 September 1180 A.D.
|Manuel| |I|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Manuel| |I| |Comnenus,| |8| |April| |1143| |-| |24| |September| |1180| |A.D.|, St. George is the Patron Saint of England. Traditionally, the sword with which St. George slew the dragon was called Ascalon, a name recalling the city of Ashkelon, Israel. During World War II, Winston Churchill named his personal aircraft Ascalon, after St. George's sword.
BZ45637. Bronze half tetarteron, DOC IV-1 23; Hendy pl. 18, 3; Morrisson BnF 61/X/AE/05; Wroth BMC 78; Ratto 2158; SBCV 1980; Sommer 61.25, VF, nice green patina, flan cracks, uncertain Greek mint, weight 1.565g, maximum diameter 17.0mm, die axis 180o, 1152 - c. 1160 A.D.; obverse Θ / Γ/E-ΩP/ΓI/OC (or similar), bust of St. George facing, beardless, wearing nimbus, tunic, cuirass, and sagion, spear in right, shield in left; reverse MANYH ΔECΠOT, Manuel, bust facing, wearing crown and loros, labarum in right, globus cruciger in left; SOLD




  







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