Corinth Coin: 1994 172
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1994 172
Title:   Coin
    Byzantine Billon Imitative Trachy (AD 1195)
Year:   1994
Coin Number:   172
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   Bi
Denomination:   Trachy
Comments:   Bulgarian Imitative, Type C
Obverse Legend:   [KERO HUEI]. In field, IC – [XC]
Obverse Type:   Beardless, nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand. Pellets in each limb of nimbus cross.
Reverse Legend:   [inscription]
Reverse Type:   Full-length figure of emperor on l. and of St. Constantine; holding between them gl. cr.
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   1.67
Weight:   1.67
Diameter:   22
Chronology:   AD 1195
Context:   NB868 B2 P13
Findspot Description:   NB868 B2 P13, .
    SE Temple E, Grid 78 ZX, surface soil
Excavation Date: 5/4/1994
Basket 2
Notebook 868, p. 13, .
Elevation:   86.85
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Notes:   Record generated from NB catalogue.
    Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
pressed flat
Type C Imitation, as Alexius III, Var. II - no nimbus on St. Constantine
Reference:   Hendy, pl. 25, 1-5; cf. DOC IV.1, p. 407-8, 3
Published:   Hesperia 1995, p. 51
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Williams, Hesperia 64:1, 1995
Image: digital 2010 1418
Image: digital 2010 1419
Image: digital 2010 1420