Corinth Coin: 1929 1908
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1929 1908
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Isaac II, Angelus (AD 1185 - AD 1195)
Year:   1929
Coin Number:   1908
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Authority:   Isaac II, Angelus
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   no inscription
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, and in l. gl. cr.
Reverse Legend:   no inscription
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. anexikakia
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   0.455
Weight:   0.455
Diameter:   12
Chronology:   AD 1185 - AD 1195
Findspot Description:   North of Peribolos
Excavation Date: 4/22/1929, 35-J, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
Card #1908
Reference:   cf. DOC IV.1, p. 391, 6; cf. Hendy, p. 145, pl. 21, 10-11; Edwards, p. 147, 155; BMC, p. 597, type 3
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0856
Image: digital 2010 0857
Image: digital 2010 0858