Corinth Coin: 1929 2287
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1929 2287
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Follis, Trebizond Mint
Year:   1929
Coin Number:   2287
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Follis
Mint:   Trebizond
Obverse Legend:   IC - XC
Obverse Type:   Bust of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; [holds Gospels (open) in l. hand]
Reverse Legend:   ES - I ODEC[ P ]
Reverse Type:   Bust of Emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collarpiece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger and in l. globus cruciger
Under Type:   overstruck
Axis Clock:   6
Diameter:   29
Findspot Description:   North of Peribolos, on Peireine drain
Excavation Date: 5/23/1929
Notebook 103, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Trebizond Follis Type VII
Barbarous
Card #1362
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 430; B.M.C., p. 548, type 3; cf. Gr. 1008
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 3481
Image: digital 2010 3482
Image: digital 2010 3483