Corinth Coin: 1976 565
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1976 565
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Billon Imitative Trachy (AD 1204 - AD 1261)
Year:   1976
Coin Number:   565
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   Bi
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
Under Type:   double struck
Axis Clock:   5
Weight Description:   1.38
Weight:   1.38
Diameter:   17
Chronology:   AD 1204 - AD 1261
Context:   NB654 B130 P97
Findspot Description:   NB654 B130 P97, .
    Temple Hill, West Road Trench IV
Excavation Date: 7/30/1976
Basket 130
Notebook 654, p. 97
Lot 76-235, .
Area:   Temple Hill
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Latin Imitative, Type D, small module
Reference:   Hendy, p. 198, pl. 29, 10-12
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2010 1514
Image: digital 2010 1515
Image: digital 2010 1516
Basket: NB654 B130 P97
Notebook Page: NB 654, spread 53 (p. 97)