Ancient Gold Coins
Lot 4984 Session 16 (9.30am Friday) Ancient Gold Coins
Estimate $300
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $250
MANUEL I, (1143-1180), electrum aspron trachy (scyphate), Constantinople mint, (4.17 grams), 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 [MAN]UH**L to left, O/**Q E[/W/R/O/S], (S.1959, Hendy Pl.13, 5-9, BMC 27-30). Large flan, weak in places, nearly very fine/very fine.
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