Corinth Coin: 1937 53
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1937 53
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Trachy
Year:   1937
Coin Number:   53
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Trachy
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   IC – XC in upper field
Obverse Type:   Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; holds Gospels in l. hand. Asterisk above cushion of throne, on either side.
Reverse Legend:   No inscription
Reverse Type:   Half-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger and in left. globus cruciger
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   1.42
Weight:   1.42
Diameter:   23
Findspot Description:   So. Stoa W.
Excavation Date: 9/13/1937, #1-8
Notebook 170, p. 17, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Latin Imitative, Type D, small module
Reference:   Hendy, p. 198, pl. 29, 10-12; Edwards, p. 144, 136
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Images (4)