MANUEL I GOLD HYPERPYRON – YOUNG CHRIST EMMANUEL PORTRAIT AND EMPEROR BLESSED BY HAND OF GOD – AU NGC GRADED BYZANTINE COIN (Inv. 19516)

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19516. BYZANTINE EMPIRE. MANUEL I, AD 1143–1180.
Gold Hyperpyron (scyphate), 4.20 g, 31 mm.
Obv. +KE ROHΘEI, bust of youthful Christ Emmanuel, beardless, facing, holding scroll and raising his right hand in benediction, IC–XC flanking him. Rev. MANOVHΛ ΔECΠOTH –TѠ ΠOPΦVPΓЄNTѠ, Manuel standing, facing, holding labarum and globus cruciger, hand of God (manus Dei) blessing him from above.
Sear 1956.
NGC graded AU, Strike 4/5, Surface 2/5, “wavy flan,” “graffito”.