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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 7648731, member: 96635&quot;]Great for the price, congrats and welcome to the wonderful world of late Byzantine coinage!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2021-3-30_22-11-28-png.1280776/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180). Electrum Aspron Trachy. Constantinople mint, Type C, ca. 1160-1164.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> ΙC - ΧC Christ Pantocrator, standing facing, nimbate and enrobed, raising right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels with his left; in field to left and right, star.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> MA-NVHΛ - O/ ΘЄ/O/Δ/ω/PO/C Manuel and St. Theodore standing facing, both holding a sword in their outer hand, and holding a long patriarchal cross set on a globe between them.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> DOC 4c; Sear 1959.</p><p>4.63g; 33mm</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/powDWMG.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Alexius I Comnenus, (1081-1118). <b>Billon Aspron Trachy</b>, Post-reform period, second coinage. Constantinopolis mint. Struck 1092/3-1118.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Christ seated facing on square-backed throne, wearing nimbus, pallium and colobium, rasing his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospel in his left; in fields, IC - XC.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> + AΛЄZIω ΔЄC[ΠΟΤ Tω KM] Crowned bust of Alexius I facing, wearing loros, holding labarum with his right hand and globus cruciger in his left.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> SB 1918.</p><p>4.40g; 28mm</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2021-3-30_22-15-31-png.1280777/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180). Billon Aspron Trachy. Constantinople mint.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Christ seated facing on throne with back, wearing pallium and colobium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left; in fields, XC - IC.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> ΜΑΝU[...] ΔЄCΠ / ΜΡ-ΦV Manuel I standing facing on the left, wearing divitision and chlamys, holding labarum in his right and globus cruciger in his left, crowned by the Virgin Mary, standing facing on the right.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> DOC IV 13F.1, Sear 1966.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2021-3-25_20-5-38-png.1277630/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Michael VIII Palaeologus (1261-1282). Æ Trachy. Constantinople mint.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> O AGI-DEMETR. St. Demetrius standing facing, holding spear and resting left hand on shield, star at lower left.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> MP-QV, MIXHAL. Michael standing on left, holding labarum, being crowned by Mary on right.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> Sear 2265.</p><p>2.03g; 26mm[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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