Corinth Coin: 1933 1777
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1933 1777
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Half Tetarteron of Isaac II, Angelus, 1185-1195 (AD 1185 - AD 1195)
Year:   1933
Coin Number:   1777
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Authority:   Isaac II, Angelus, 1185-1195
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:   inscription illegible
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
Weight Description:   1.78
Weight:   1.78
Diameter:   14
Chronology:   AD 1185 - AD 1195
Findspot Description:   Agora SE
Excavation Date: 5/18/1933, #19-47
Notebook 135, p. 150, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Separated from card #1178 - one of two coins
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 391, 6; cf. Hendy, p. 145, pl. 21, 10-11; Edwards, no 155; BMC, p. 597, type 3
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece