Corinth Coin: 1934 211
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1934 211
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Coin of Isaac II, Angelus, 1185-1195, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1185 - AD 1195)
Year:   1934
Coin Number:   211
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   Isaac II, Angelus, 1185-1195
Obverse Legend:    O/X / AR – [X / MI]
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 Legend:   ICA / AKI / OC - DE / CPO / TH / C
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
Diameter:   16
Chronology:   AD 1185 - AD 1195
Findspot Description:   Christian Basilica, N. pit in Prothesis
Excavation Date: 3/10/1934, #4
Notebook 98, p. 121, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 390, 5; cf. Hendy, p. 145, pl. 21, 10-11; Edwards, no 155; BMC, p. 597, type 3
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0822
Image: digital 2010 0823
Image: digital 2010 0824