Period
Byzantine
Person
Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor, 1143-1180
Mint
Constantinople (Byzantine)
Denom.
Electrum trachy
Dating
1152-1167?
Obverse
IC XC, Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated on throne without back; right hand raised in benediction, hold Gospels in left
Reverse
Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, and of Virgin nimbate, holding between them a patriarchal cross on long shaft with small globe at the base. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and loros; holds anexikakia in right hand; the Virgin wears tunic and maphorion
