1 Hyperpyron Byzantine Empire (330-1453) Gold Manuel I Komnenos(1 ...

Manuel I Comnenus, AV Hyperpyron, 1143-1180, Constantinople

+KE RO_QEI

Bust of Christ facing, beardless, wearing nimbus cruciger with five pellets in
each arm, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, scroll
in left; IC | XC across fields all in double-border

MA / NOV (N retrograde) / HL / DEC / PO / TH | Tw (ligate) / P / OR / Q / UR / GE / NH / wT Manuel standing facing, wearing crown, divitision and chlamys, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger surmounted by patriarchal cross in left, + on inside of cloak, Magnus Dei in upper right field all in double-border 29mm x 31mm, 4.51g