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Aspron Trachy - Manuel I Komnenos Constantinopolis
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 1143-1180 |
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| Value | Aspron Trachy (1⁄120) |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of the Virgin Orans (Theotokos) standing on a footstool within a dotted inner border, arms raised in the orant posture, clad in maphorion and chiton with finely rendered drapery folds rendered in the Byzantine hieratic style. A nimbus surrounds her head. The abbreviated Greek inscription ΜΡ ΘΥ (Meter Theou, Mother of God) appears in the fields to either side of the figure. |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal figure of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos in imperial loros costume, standing and holding a labarum-headed sceptre in his right hand and a globus cruciger in his left, rendered in the formal Byzantine court style. The emperor wears a jewelled crown and elaborately decorated imperial regalia. The Greek legend ΜΑΝΥΗΛ ΔΕСΠΟΤΗС (Manuel Despotes) is inscribed in the fields flanking the figure, identifying the ruler by name and imperial title. |
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| Mintage | ND (1143-1180) - Constantinopolis |
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