Corinth Coin: 1937 56
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1937 56
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Andronicus I, Uncertain Greek Mint (AD 1183 - AD 1185)
Year:   1937
Coin Number:   56
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Mint:   Uncertain Greek
Authority:   Andronicus I
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:    M-R - UV
Obverse Type:   Bust of Virgin nimbate orans, wearing tunic and maphorion; beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast
Reverse Legend:   [AND]RO - NI[KOC]
Reverse Type:   Bust of emperor wearing stemma, skaramangion or divitision, and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in l. gl. cr.
Axis Clock:   6
Diameter:   16
Chronology:   AD 1183 - AD 1185
Findspot Description:   So. Stoa W.
Excavation Date: 9/15/1937, #29-39
Notebook 170, p. 31, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Imitation?
Reference:   DOC IV.1, p. 353, 8; Hendy, p. 134, pl.19, 4; BMC, p. 586, type 3; Edwards, p. 146, 152
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0813
Image: digital 2010 0814
Image: digital 2010 0815