Corinth Coin: 1927 1372
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1927 1372
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin (AD 1195)
Year:   1927
Coin Number:   1372
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Comments:   Bulgarian Imitative, Type C
Obverse Legend:   [KERO HUEI]. In field, IC – [XC]
Obverse Type:   Beardless, nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand. Pellets in each limb of nimbus cross.
Reverse Legend:   No inscription
Reverse Type:   Full-length figure of emperor on l. and of St. Constantine, holding between them gl. cr; both hold labarum-headed scepter.
Axis Clock:   6
Diameter:   27
Chronology:   AD 1195
Findspot Description:   Odeion, N.W.
Excavation Date: 5/2/1927
Notebook 92, p.1, line 39, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Type C Imitation, as Alexius III, Vari. II - unusual loros waist pattern
Card #1372
Reference:   Hendy, pl. 25; cf. DOC IV.1, p. 407-8; Wroth II, p. 602, type 4
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 1421
Image: digital 2010 1422
Image: digital 2010 1423