Byzantine Empire, Emperor Manuel I Comnenus, BI Trachy - 1143 to 1180 CE - The Crusades

Includes glass top leatherette display box.

• Origin: Byzantine Empire
• Authority: Emperor Manuel I Comnenus
• Date: 1143 - 1180 CE
• Denomination: BI (billon) trachy
• Mint: Constantinople
• Size: 30.5mm, 4.63g
• Type Number: Sear 1965
• Obverse: MTHP-ΘV - The Virgin enthroned facing, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium, holding nimbate head of infant Jesus in lap
• Reverse: MANUHΛ ΔΕ-CΠ - Standing figure of Manuel facing, crowned and wearing divitision and chlamys, holding labarum in right hand and globus cruciger
• Notes: Manuel I Comnenus was emperor during the time of the Second Crusade, when western Crusaders passed through the empire.

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