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: 31.5mm, 3.16g
• Type Number: Sear 1966
• Obverse: IC-XC - Christ, bearded, seated on throne, wearing nimbus, pallium and colobion; raising right hand in benediction, holds book of Gospels in left hand.
• Reverse: MANOVHΛ ΔECΠOT - The Virgin, nimbate, and Manuel, both standing facing; the Virgin wears pallium and maphorium and crowns the emperor who wears divitision and loros, holding labarum and globus cruciger.
• Notes: Manuel I Comnenus was emperor during the time of the Second Crusade, when western Crusaders passed through the empire.

All purchases include a Certificate of Authenticity. You will receive the exact item in the photos.