Corinth Coin: 1937 100
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1937 100
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Isaac II, Angelus (AD 1185 - AD 1195)
Year:   1937
Coin Number:   100
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:   1.36
Weight:   1.36
Diameter:   15
Chronology:   AD 1185 - AD 1195
Findspot Description:   Agora S.C.
Excavation Date: 11/3/1937, #66-80
Notebook 173, p. 81, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation
Reference:   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:   Images (4)