Period
Byzantine
Person
Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor, 1143-1180
Mint
Constantinople (Byzantine)
Denom.
Electrum trachy
Dating
1160-1164?
Obverse
IC XC, Full-length figure of Christ, standing on dais, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, holds Gospels in left hand; stars left and right
Reverse
MANOVHΛ OΘΕΟΔW, Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, and of St. Theodore, bearded and nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long staff, with large globe at the base. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and loros; holds sword in right hand. Saint wears short military tunic and breastplate; holds sword in left hand