Live auction - bby_839032 - MANUEL I KOMNENOS Hyperpère

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Estimate :	800 €
Price :	430 €
Maximum bid :	430 €
End of the sale :	05 September 2023 15:28:15
bidders :	3 bidders

Type : Hyperpère

Date: c. 1143-1180

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : electrum

Millesimal fineness : 833 ‰

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Orientation dies : 5 h.

Weight : 4,41 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Superbe exemplaire sur un flan large, centré des deux côtés. Revers finement détaillé. Joli buste du Christ. Patine de collection

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.1 - R.2111 - Do.- - BN/B.1 - BC.1956 (300£) - RGCMW.349 (375$) - DMBR.61 /1 (650€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IC - XC.

Obverse description : Buste du Christ nimbé de face, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la gauche.

Obverse legend : + KE ROHQEI.

Obverse translation : (Notre seigneur Dieu, Jésus Christ).

Reverse

Reverse description : Manuel Ier debout de face ; Manuel Ier est couronné, vêtu du divitision et du loros, tenant l’akakia de la main droite et le labarum de la main gauche.

Reverse legend : MA/NuHA DES/PO/TH -T/w/ POR/Fu/ROG/(NH)/T.

Reverse translation : (Manuel despote né dans la pourpre).