| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Coin | |
| Name: | 1926 768 | |
| Title: | Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Manuel I (AD 1143 - AD 1180) | |
| Year: | 1926 | |
| Coin Number: | 768 | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Material: | AE | |
| Denomination: | Half Tetarteron | |
| Authority: | Manuel I | |
| Comments: | Type B, Imitative Series | |
| Obverse Legend: | ||
| Obverse Type: | Bust of St. George, beardless and nimabte, wearing tunic, breastplate, and sagion; holds in r. hand spear, and in l. shield | |
| Reverse Legend: | ||
| Reverse Type: | Bust of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in l., globus cruciger | |
| Axis Clock: | 6 | |
| Weight Description: | 1.60 | |
| Weight: | 1.60 | |
| Diameter: | 17 | |
| Chronology: | AD 1143 - AD 1180 | |
| Findspot Description: | Peribolos E. Side Excavation Date: 6/4 and 7/1926 Notebook 90, p. 21 and 25, . | |
| Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Imitation Found in box with 1926-515. Only one card made for the 2 coins originally. Separated 2/13/2000. | |
| Reference: | DOC IV.1, p. 337, 23; Hendy, p. 121-122, pl. 18, 3-4; BMC, p. 579, type 6 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: digital 2010 0774 Image: digital 2010 0775 Image: digital 2010 0776 |
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