For sale from private collection this small ancient coin struck for Byzantine Emperor, Manuel I Comnenus, 8 April 1143 - 24 September 1180 A.D. Bronze, Half Tetarteron PLEASE NOTE: THE SIZE OF A DIME Size: 16 mm Obverse cruciform Manuel monogram ; reverse half-length bust of Manuel facing, beardless, wearing stemma, divitision, collar decorated with five jewels, loros and crown with cross and pendilia, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left hand. Pickup in Central Saanich