Corinth Coin: 1928 821
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1928 821
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin of Isaac II, Angelus (AD 1185)
Year:   1928
Coin Number:   821
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Authority:   Isaac II, Angelus
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Type:   Bust of archangel Michael, beardless and nimbate, wearing divitsion, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand jeweled scepter, or spear, and in l. gl. cr.
Reverse Type:   Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l. globus
Axis Clock:   5
Weight Description:   1.03
Weight:   1.03
Diameter:   17
Chronology:   AD 1185
Findspot Description:   Cathedral Cenchrean Gate
Excavation Date: 6/20/1928
Notebook 99, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
octagonal clip, Group B
Card #135
Reference:   cf. DOC IV.1, p. 390, 5; cf. Hendy, p. 145, pl. 19, 8-10 and pl. 21, 10-11; Edwards, no 155; cf. BMC, p. 597, type 3, esp. 47
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0977
Image: digital 2010 0978
Image: digital 2010 0979