Corinth Coin: 1937 92
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1937 92
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Half Tetarteron of John II, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1118 - AD 1143)
Year:   1937
Coin Number:   92
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Denomination:   Half Tetarteron
Mint:   Thessalonika
Authority:   John II
Obverse Legend:   To l. of Demetrius, [O/DH]/MI; to r. of Demetrius, [T/RI]/OC
Obverse Type:   St. Demetrius bust, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic, breastplate, and sagion, holds in r. hand sword, and in l. shield
Reverse Legend:   +IV[DCC]-POT
Reverse Type:   Emperor bust, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type, holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter on long shaft, in l., globus crucigus
Under Type:   overstruck on Alexius I
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   2.79
Weight:   2.79
Diameter:   20
Chronology:   AD 1118 - AD 1143
Findspot Description:   Agora S.C.
Excavation Date: 10/21/1937, #1-32
Notebook: 173 p. 6, .
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
Type B
Reference:   DOC IV p. 272, 17; Hendy p. 107, plates 11.15; Ed. P. 144, 138
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 0582
Image: digital 2010 0583
Image: digital 2010 0584