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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Comnen Dynasty| > |Manuel I| > BZ89602
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.|, The cruciform monogram should probably be read, MΛ (Manuel) Δ (Despotes) K (Komnenos) Π (Porphyrogennetos).

Gibbons Decline & Fall says of Manuel I, "The first in the charge, the last in the retreat, his friends and his enemies alike trembled, the former for his safety, and the latter for their own."
BZ89602. Bronze half tetarteron, DOC IV-1 20; Hendy pl. 17, 17; Morrisson BnF 61/Th/AE/21; Wroth BMC 83; Ratto 2160; SBCV 1977; Sommer 61.21, Choice VF, dark patina with coppery high points, tiny edge cracks, Thessalonica (Salonika, Greece) mint, weight 2.868g, maximum diameter 18.8mm, die axis 180o, 8 Apr 1143 - 1152 A.D.; obverse cruciform Manuel monogram ; reverse half-length bust of Manuel facing, beardless, wearing stemma, divitision, collar decorated with six jewels, loros and crown with cross and pendilia, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left hand; ex Numismatik Lanz (Munich); SOLD










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