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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 8359486, member: 95174&quot;]I lost several coins I needed at the latest Morton and Eden auction, I was more than disappointed, I was in the middle of the Pacific when the auction was on and my prebids were beaten. </p><p>I did however manage to acquire an unbid on coin, It was a coin I needed but the fact it had been clipped originally dissuaded me. Now that I have the coin in hand I made the decision it will not be a filler, It is an attractive example and&nbsp; it will be part of my permanent collection.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1483736[/ATTACH] </p><p>Manuel I, Comnenus (1143-1180), electrum aspron trachy, Thessalonica, Virgin enthroned facing, holding before her, nimbate head of the infant Christ facing, rev., Manuel and St. Demetrius standing facing, holding labarum between them; 1.89g (DO 9.5; S. 1974), four minor flan cracks, very fine Ex European Ambassador Collection, formed in the 1950s and 1960s.</p><p><br /></p><p>When doing my research I ran into an article that delt with why these examples were clipped, the article was written by Robert D Leonard Jr. The article called </p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37338322/Andronicus_Comnenuss_Invasion_Money_of_1181_1182" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/37338322/Andronicus_Comnenuss_Invasion_Money_of_1181_1182" rel="nofollow">(99+) Andronicus Comnenus&#039;s Invasion Money of 1181-1182 | Robert Leonard - Academia.edu</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It surmised that Electrum Aspron trachea from the reign of Manuel and John II had been clipped&nbsp; and hammered into shape to roughly half the weight of the normal denomination by Andronicus, to pay an army of mercenary&#039;s under the pretense of saving Alexius II the young ruler of the Empire from his mis deeding guardians.&nbsp;&nbsp; Andronicus successfully does take the city and becomes his new guardian. So these clipped coins were technically issued by Alexius II.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;This article is an interesting theory and if true would make these clipped coins the only known coins of Alexius II.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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