Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1987 22 | |
Title: | Byzantine Billon Imitative Trachy, Thessalonika Mint (AD 1204) | |
Year: | 1987 | |
Coin Number: | 22 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | Bi | |
Denomination: | Trachy | |
Mint: | Thessalonika | |
Comments: | Imitative | |
Obverse Legend: | [I]C – [XC] in 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, to either side. | |
Reverse Legend: | garbled inscription to r. | |
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 l. globus cruciger. | |
Under Type: | doublestruck on obverse | |
Axis Clock: | 6 | |
Weight Description: | 2.39 | |
Weight: | 2.39 | |
Diameter: | 24 | |
Chronology: | AD 1204 | |
Findspot Description: | Temple E South,from top of pit 87-2, cleaning debris from balk, Decumanus Excavation Date: 8/4/1987 Basket 9 Notebook 797, p. 15-17, . | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. skyphate. Latin Imitative, Type A(large) | |
Reference: | Hendy, p. 196, pl. 28, 1-4 | |
Published: | Hesperia 1988, p. 142, 92 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 57:2, 1988 Images (4) |