Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Coin | |
Name: | 1989 245 | |
Title: | Coin | |
Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Half Tetarteron of Manuel I (AD 1143 - AD 1180) | ||
Year: | 1989 | |
Coin Number: | 245 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Material: | AE | |
Denomination: | Half Tetarteron | |
Authority: | Manuel I | |
Comments: | Type B, Imitative Series | |
Obverse Legend: | ||
Obverse Type: | Bust of St. George, beardless and nimabte, wearing tunic, breastplate, and sagion; holds in r. hand spear, and in l. shield | |
Reverse Legend: | ||
Reverse Type: | Bust of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; [holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in l., globus cruciger] | |
Under Type: | overstruck or double struck at right angle | |
Axis Clock: | 12 and 3 | |
Weight Description: | 0.68 | |
Weight: | 0.68 | |
Diameter: | 14 | |
Chronology: | AD 1143 - AD 1180 | |
Context: | NB826 B36 P39 | |
Findspot Description: | NB826 B36 P39, . | |
Temple E, SE, Fill from bothros, 75: C, Pit 894, Unit 1, Room 1 Excavation Date: 6/26-27/1989 Basket 36 Notebook 826, p. 39, . | ||
Elevation: | 82.45 | |
Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
Notes: | Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Record generated from NB catalogue. | |
Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation. Very think flan octagonal clip Attributed Types as in Manuel I but perhaps closer (emperor's arm raised) to those of John III of Nicaea, A.D. 1222-1254 (Hendy, pl. 34.4-5) | ||
Reference: | DOC IV.1, p. 337, 23; Hendy, p. 121-122, pl. 18, 3-4; BMC, p. 579, type 6 | |
Published: | Hesperia 1990, p. 365, 58 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 59:2, 1990 Image: digital 2010 0705 Image: digital 2010 0706 Image: digital 2010 0707 |