Description: Byzantine Empire Manuel I Comnenus (AD 1143-1180) EL (Electrum Gold Alloy) Aspron Trachy (32mm, 4.08 gm, 5h). Constantinople, AD 1160-1164. Reference: Sear 1959 Certified NGC MS Strike 4/5 Surface 4/5 6323251-165 IC-XC (barred), Christ standing facing on dais, bearded, wearing nimbus cruciger with five pellets in limbs, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left; eight-pointed star to either side M-AN-ΩHΛ-O / ΘЄ/Ο/Δ/Ω/Ρ/OC, Manuel I, bearded (on left) and St. Theodore, bearded and nimbate (on right) both standing facing, jointly holding patriarchal cross with three small pellets on shaft and large globus on base between them, emperor wearing crown, divitision and loros, right hand on pommel of sheathed sword on hip, saint wearing military attire with left hand on pommel of sheathed sword at hip. See the Genuine History Collection Struck during a period of great tension between the Byzantine Empire and the Western European Crusader forces, this coin is symbolic of Manuel I's desire to preserve the power and independence of the Byzantine realm from the ever-threatening "Latins." The patriarchal cross on the reverse of the coin, a major symbol of Orthodox Christianity, would have signaled Manuel's desire to protect his people, empire, and faith from the hostile Roman Catholic Crusaders, as would the depiction of St. Theodore, a popular saint in the Byzantine cultural sphere.
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Certification: NGC
KM Number: Sear 1959
Era: Ancient
Denomination: Aspron Trachy
Material: Electrum
Historical Period: Byzantine (300-1400 AD)
Year: 1160-1164 AD
Grade: MS
Certification Number: 6323251-165
