Manuel I Billon Aspron Trachy 4.07 grams, 31.64 mm. 
Constantinople. 1143-1180 AD.  

Obverse: MP-theta V to left and right, Mary, nimbate, 
seated, holding before her the nimbate head of infant Christ 
facing left.  
Reverse: [MANVHL DECPOTHC], Manuel, crowned, wearing chlamys 
and divitision, standing facing, holding labarum and 
patriarchal cross on globe.  

SB 1964; BMC 56.

Courtesy of TimeLine Originals (www.time-lines.co.uk), Dec, 2010