BYZANTINE EMPIRE.Manuel I Comnenus AD 1143-1180.AE.Tetarteron. Mint of THESSALONIKA.
( 4.00g, 19.7mm, 6h )
O A / Γ / E - WP / ΓI / OC, nimbate bust of Saint George holding spear in right hand and shield in left.
Reverse.MANOVHΛ -ΔECΠΟΤ, facing bust of Manuel wearing crown with pendillia and loros, holding in right hand labarum and in left globus cruciger.
Ref:Sear 1975.
Good very fine.
Both obverse and reverse legends fully legible.