Manuel I Comnenus   Constantinopolis
Imperium Byzantinum
Μανουήλ Α' Κομνηνός   Κωνσταντινούπολις
Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία

Hyperpyron / Υπέρπυρον AV 27

SHH 848

Parameter Obverse Reverse Notes Reference

4.33 g   26.2-28.1 mm   6:00 o'clock   EF Bust of beardless Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, and raising right hand in benediction; IC / XC with overbars on either side; KE ΒΟ / ΗΘΕΙ around nimbus; border of dots. Manuel standing facing, wearing crown, divitision and chlamys, and holding labarum and globus surmounted with patriarchal cross; in upper field to right manus dei; to left ΜΑ / ΝΟΥ / ΗΛ / [Δ]ΕC / [ΠΟ / ΤΗ]; to right Τ[ω / ΠΟΡ / ΦV / ΡΟΓ / ΝΗ / Τ]; double border of dots. Mint of Constantinopolis. BMC 1/13; Dumbarton Oaks VI/1 1e; Sear Byzantine 1956