Ancient Gold Coins
Lot 4812 Session 18 (2.30pm Friday 25 November) Ancient Gold Coins
Estimate $300
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $260
MANUEL I, (1143-1180), electrum aspron trachy (scyphate), Constantinople mint, (4.13 g), third coinage, obv. Christ facing on dais, bearded and wearing nimbus, in hand the Gospels, IC XC to left and right, star on each side, rev. facing figures of St. Theodore on right and Manuel I on left wearing divitision and chlamys, holding a patriarchal cross between them, globe at base, around MANUH**L* to left, **Q/Q E/O/D/P/[O/S], (S.1959, Hendy Pl.13, 5-6, cf.BMC 27-30). Large flan, pale gold, very fine/good very fine.
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