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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 8221493, member: 56653&quot;]Here is a very scarce aspron trachy of Manuel of the Komnenodoukai from Thessalonica:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1444035[/ATTACH] </p><p>AE22mm 1.45g billon ca. 1234-5</p><p>O / AΓI/OC / ΔI/MH/...; Half-length bust of Saint Demetrios, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic, breast plate and sagion, holding spear in r. hand and sword in l. hand.</p><p>[MANOVHΛ ΔEC] - IC - XC; full-length figure of despot left, wearing stemma, divitision and paneled chlamys, holding in r. hand sceptre cruciger and in l. hand anexikakia, crowned by Christ wearing tunic and kolobion, holding Gospels in l. hand; star in r. field.</p><p>cf. DOC 3a, Type A, p.571; Sear 2177/2184; Labarum <a href="https://coins.labarum.info/en/catalog/1046?cid=1042" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.labarum.info/en/catalog/1046?cid=1042" rel="nofollow">21770</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, this is a middle module trachion, which is at least scarce after 1230 by itself. Second, the preservation is above average. Third and most important, it was not clipped later on in the 1240s when the trade in the Balkan area and northern Greece/Thrace, Epiros etc. relies heavily on heavily clipped petty coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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