Byzantine Empire Lot of 3x Aspron Trachy including Manuel I and Alexius III. (No reserve price)

Byzantine Empire.
Lot of 3x Aspron Trachy including Manuel I and Alexius III.

Item details:

— Manuel I Comnenus (1143- 1180 AD). Aspron Trachy (Billon, 26.2 mm, 3.99 g).
Obv: Christ, bearded, seated facing on throne, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium and raising right hand in benediction; in left, book of Gospels; to left, IC; to right, XC.
Rev: Manuel, bearded, facing, wearing crown, divitision and loros, and holding cruciform sceptre and globus cruciger.
Reference: Sear, Byzantine Coins and Their Values, type 1963.

— Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus (1195–1203 AD). Aspron Trachy (Billon, 27 mm, 3.23 g).
Obv: Bust of Christ facing, beardless, wearing cruciform nimbus, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction and holding scroll in left; IC to left, XC to right.
Rev: ΑΛЄΞΙΟC ΔЄCΠ Ο ΚωΝCΤΑΝΤΙ. Alexius III on left and St. Constantine, bearded and nimbate, on right, both standing facing, wearing crowns, divitision and loros; holding between them a globus cruciger, sometimes surmounted by a patriarchal cross. Each holds a labarum: the emperor in his right hand, the saint in his left.
Reference: Sear, Byzantine Coins and Their Values, type 2011.

— Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus (1195–1203 AD). Aspron Trachy (Billon, 27 mm, 3.53 g).
Obv: Bust of Christ facing, beardless, wearing cruciform nimbus, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction and holding scroll in left; IC to left, XC to right.
Rev: ΑΛЄΞΙΟC ΔЄCΠ Ο ΚωΝCΤΑΝΤΙ. Alexius III on left and St. Constantine, bearded and nimbate, on right, both standing facing, wearing crowns, divitision and loros; holding between them a globus cruciger, sometimes surmounted by a patriarchal cross. Each holds a labarum: the emperor in his right hand, the saint in his left.
Reference: Sear, Byzantine Coins and Their Values, type 2011.

Manuel I Comnenus pursued ambitious diplomacy and warfare, making his reign a final high point of Comnenian power. Under Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus, fiscal exactions and military neglect deepened the state’s weakness; his flight before the Fourth Crusade marked the collapse of effective imperial authority. Their issues link imperial decline with enduring claims to Christian legitimacy through Christ and St. Constantine.

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